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diff --git a/doc/www.gnu.org/announce/20060809.wml b/doc/www.gnu.org/announce/20060809.wml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..680e3cd4e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/www.gnu.org/announce/20060809.wml @@ -0,0 +1,225 @@ +#!wml --include=.. + +#use wml::std::page +#use wml::std::lang +#use wml::fmt::isolatin +#use wml::std::case global=upper + +<lang:star:slice:> + +<set-var last-modified-author="mjw"> + +#include <include/macros.wml> + +<header title="GNU Classpath 0.92 Announcement (2006-08-09)"> +<pre> +We are proud to announce the release of GNU Classpath 0.92 Bling! Bling! + +This is the first release that has a full graphics 2D implemenation +based on Cairo enabled by default. This enables the use of applications +like JEdit, FlickrBackup and JFreeChart out of the box. Screenshots of +CairoGraphics2D in action http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/samples-gnu.html + +Also new in this release is the inclusion of an applet viewer +and plugin that can be embedded in webbrowsers or other applications. +It works on any platform supported by the various runtimes based on +GNU Classpath, including 64 bit architectures. + +Some other highlights in this release (more extensive list below): + + An alternative awt peer implementation based on Escher that uses the + X protocol directly. Various ImageIO providers for png, gif and bmp + images. Support for reading and writing midi files and reading .au + and .wav files have been added. Various tools and support classes + have been added for jar, native2ascii, serialver, keytool, jarsigner. + A GConf based util.peers backend has been added. Support for using + alternative root certificate authorities with the security and crypto + packages. Start of javax.management and runtime lang.managment support. + NIO channels now support scatter-gather operations. + +GNU Classpath, essential libraries for java, is a project to create +free core class libraries for use with runtimes, compilers and tools +for the java programming language. + +The GNU Classpath developer snapshot releases are not directly aimed +at the end user but are meant to be integrated into larger development +platforms. For example the GCC (gcj) and Kaffe projects will use the +developer snapshots as a base for future versions. More projects based +on GNU Classpath: http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/stories.html + +Also released is classpath-generics-0.92 an experimental branch with +support for all the new 1.5 language features such as generics and +enumerations. ECJ, JamVM, IKVM and Cacao are known to support the +generics release. And you can use it to run Eclipse 3.1 with it to +develop programs that use the new 1.5 language and core library +additions. classpath-generics is a work in progress and not as +extensively tested as our regular releases. But please try it out if +you want to help us test the new 1.5 support of the core libraries. + +The GNU Classpath developers site http://developer.classpath.org/ +provides detailed information on how to start with helping the GNU +Classpath project and gives an overview of the core class library +packages currently provided. For each snapshot release generated +documentation is provided through the GNU Classpath Tools gjdoc +project. A documentation generation framework for java source +files used by the GNU project. Full documentation on the currently +implementated packages and classes can be found at: +http://developer.classpath.org/doc/ + +For more information about the project see also: + +- GNU Classpath home page: + http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/ + +- Developer information (wiki): + http://developer.classpath.org/ + +- Full class documentation + http://developer.classpath.org/doc/ + +- GNU Classpath hackers: + http://planet.classpath.org/ + +- Autobuilder, current build status, build snapshots: + http://builder.classpath.org/ + +- Application test pages (wiki) + http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/Applets + http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/FreeAWTTestApps + http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/FreeSwingTestApps + http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/FreeSWTTestApps + +- GNU Classpath hacking with Eclipse (wiki) + http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathHackingWithEclipse + +- GNU Classpath promotion banners: + http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathBanners + +GNU Classpath 0.92 can be downloaded from +ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/classpath/ +or one of the ftp.gnu.org mirrors +http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html + +File: classpath-0.92.tar.gz +MD5sum: 4603ef3e593713d94788b919bc0b6c75 +SHA1sum: fab3d6d360f6e9d712fc999f3f085e9f9c8c641a + +File: classpath-0.92-generics.tar.gz (EXPERIMENTAL) +MD5sum: 3efacbefe0224dfe57d9049619095b32 +SHA1sum: 7db4d90e36e40ec676ac813f300265849e36e223 + +New in release 0.92 (Aug 9, 2006) +(See the ChangeLog file for a full list of changes.) + +* libjawtgnu.so has been renamed libjawt.so for binary compatibility. + libjawt.so should be installed in a VM-specific directory rather + than directly in /usr/lib. Proprietary VMs put their libjawt.so + implementations in VM-specific directories but search /usr/lib first. + If GNU Classpath's libjawt.so is installed in /usr/lib it will create + problems for people who use a proprietary VM to run AWT Native + Interface applications. +* The GdkGraphics2D backend has been made the default. There is no + longer an explicit dependency on Cairo, the --enable-gtk-cairo + configure option is gone, and GTK 2.8 or higher is now required to + build the GTK peers. +* A Mozilla plugin, 'gcjwebplugin', is now included. It introduces a + dependency on the Mozilla plugin support headers and libraries. +* New java implementations of png and gif imageio readers and writers. +* A tools.texinfo document has been created and now includes + documentation about: + * appletviewer + * gcjwebplugin + * jarsigner + * keytool +* Several new tools are now included: + * appletviewer + * jar + * native2ascii + * serialver + * keytool + * jarsigner + A new configure option --enable-tool-wrappers causes wrapper + binaries to be built for VMs that support the JNI Invocation API. +* javax.sound.midi providers have been added to read and + write standard MIDI files. +* A javax.sound.sampled .au and .wav file readers have been added. +* New Java Virtual Machine Tool Interface header, jvmti.h. +* AWT peers for X Windows based on Escher (a pure java X protocol + implementation) have been added. So far it supports AWT 1.1 style + Graphics, image loading via ImageIO (PNG, GIF and BMP images in this + release), top level components as well as mouse and keyboard input. + It is capable of running many Swing applications. Graphics2D and + AWT widgets are not yet supported with this peer set. +* GConf based util.peers backend (see the --enable-gconf-peer and + --enable-default-preferences-peer configure options). +* Support for batch importing trusted certificates for use with ssl + connections (see script/import-cacerts.sh). +* NIO scatter-gather channel support. + +Runtime interface changes: + +* A new class, VMURLConnection, is used to implement + URLConnection.guessContentTypeFromStream. The reference + implementation uses libmagic (and falls back to doing nothing if + libmagic is not available). +* The method gnu.java.io.PlatformHelper.toCanonicalForm() has been + replaced with a JNI implementation of VMFile.toCanonicalForm() for + GNU/Posix systems. +* A new class, VMRuntimeMXBeanImpl, is used to implement + the low-level support of the runtime management bean. + VMs should use it to supply the input arguments and start + time of the VM. In addition, one of sun.boot.class.path + or java.boot.class.path should be defined by the VM to + support the optional boot class path access functionality. +* The Unsafe class was moved back to the place expected by the JSR 166 + reference implementation. We've also added a couple other new VM + classes to support the JSR 166 code -- sun.reflect.Reflection and + sun.reflect.misc.ReflectUtil. +* Another new class, VMClassLoadingMXBeanImpl, is used to implement + the low-level support of the class loading management bean. + VMs need to supply it with information about how many classes + are currently loaded, how many have been unloaded and whether + verbose class loading output is on or off. Provision should also + be made for the latter to be toggled at runtime. +* VMThreadMXBeanImpl is used to implement the low-level support + of the thread management bean. Providing this interface requires + providing a fair amount of information about threads, including + optional time and contention monitoring, and instances of the + new ThreadInfo class in java.lang.management. getState() has also + been added to the VMThread interface; this is required by the bean + as well as java.lang.Thread. +* VMMemoryMXBeanImpl is used to implement the low-level support + of the memory management bean. Providing this interface requires + providing information about the levels of heap and non-heap memory, + and the number of objects eligible for garbage collection. +* VMCompilationMXBeanImpl is used to allow for optional compilation + time support for Just-In-Time compilers. +* VMMemoryPoolMXBeanImpl is used to implement the low-level support + of the memory pool beans. Providing this interface requires + providing memory usage statistics for each supported bean. +* VMManagementFactory provides the names of the memory pools, + memory managers and garbage collectors maintained by the virtual + machine. These are used to create the beans by the ManagementFactory. +* VMMemoryManagerMXBeanImpl and VMGarbageCollectorMXBeanImpl provide + low-level support for memory managers (including the specific subclass + of garbage collecting memory managers). The interfaces for these + require no more than enumerating the number of collections and the + time spent (for garbage collectors) and a relationship to the memory + pools (for all), along with a validity check. + +The following people helped with this release: + +Andreas Tobler, Andrew John Hughes, Anthony Balkissoon, Anthony Green, +Archie Cobbs, Audrius Meskauskas, Carsten Neumann, Casey Marshall, +Chris Burdess, Christian Thalinger, C. Scott Marshall, Dalibor Topic, +David Gilbert, Francis Kung, Gary Benson, Henrik Gulbrandsen, Ingo +Proetel, Ito Kazumitsu, Jeroen Frijters, Jim Huang, Kazuya Ujihara, +Keith Seitz, Kyle Galloway, Lillian Angel, Mario Torre, Mark Wielaard, +Martin Platter, Matthew Burgess, Matthew Wringe, Matt Wringe, Michael +Barker, Miriam Schuster, Olivier Jolly, Paul Jenner, Raif S. Naffah, +Robert Schuster, Roman Kennke, Sven de Marothy, Tania Bento, Thomas +Fitzsimmons, Thomas Minor, Tom Tromey and Vivek Lakshmanan + +We would also like to thank the numerous bug reporters and testers! +</pre> +<footer> |