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diff --git a/libjava/classpath/doc/www.gnu.org/announce/20050906.wml b/libjava/classpath/doc/www.gnu.org/announce/20050906.wml deleted file mode 100644 index 2f95d58b3b9..00000000000 --- a/libjava/classpath/doc/www.gnu.org/announce/20050906.wml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,221 +0,0 @@ -#!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 0.18 Announcement (2005-09-06)"> -<pre> -GNU Classpath 0.18 released. - -We are pleased to announce a new developer snapshot of GNU Classpath. - -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. - -This is our first release after "The Big Merge" with GCC/GCJ. GNU -Classpath can now be used as a subdirectory of libgcj inside the GCC -tree so it will be much easier to keep GCC up-to-date with the latest -GNU Classpath developer release snapshots. - -Some highlights of changes in this release (more extensive list below): - - Added GNU JAWT for awt native interface support. Datatransfer - clipboard updated to 1.5 including support for copy/paste of - serialized objects, images and files. Completed the org.omg - PortableInterceptor, DynamicAny and Portable Object Adapter - packages. Multi plaf support for Free Swing. Editing support for - JTree and JTable. Lots of icons and look and feel improvements for - Free Swing basic and metal themes. NIO FileChannel.map implemented - and DirectByteBuffer put method speedups. Image loading speedups for - awt. Support for darwin and solaris out of the box. - -29 people actively contributed to this release and made 535 CVS -commits during the two months of development. diffstat since 0.17: - 994 files changed, 114744 insertions(+), 13663 deletions(-) - -More details about the various changes and contributions below. - -A full list of bug reports fixed for this release can be found at: -http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=classpath&target_milestone=0.18 - -This release depends on gtk+ 2.4 for AWT support. But gtk+ 2.6 or -higher is recommended. Included, but not activated by default in this -release is a Graphics2D implementation based on the Cairo Graphics -framework (http://www.cairographics.org). Enabling this makes programs -like JFreeChart and JEdit start up on GNU Classpath based runtimes. -To enable this support install the cairo 0.5.x snapshot, configure GNU -Classpath with --enable-gtk-cairo. - -One of the major focuses of the GNU Classpath project is expanding -and using the Mauve test suite for Compatibility, Completeness and -Correctness checking. Various groups around GNU Classpath collaborate -on the free software Mauve test suite which contains 32.000+ core -library tests. Mauve has various modules for testing core class -library implementations, byte code verifiers, source to byte code and -native code compiler tests. Mauve also contains the Wonka visual test -suite and the Jacks Compiler Killer Suite. -See for more information: http://www.sourceware.org/mauve/ -This release passes 31194 out of 32253 Mauve core library tests. - -Conformance reports for the included jaxp support can be found in the -doc/README.jaxp file. - -GNU Classpath 0.18 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-0.18.tar.gz -MD5sum: c0650c257aa93eafb709553f172f0bbb -SHA1sum: 28061c750244cac4ff0151da6aba183b94b98b25 - -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/ - -New in release 0.18 (Sep 6, 2005) -(See the ChangeLog file for a full list of changes.) - -* GNU JAWT implementation, the AWT Native Interface, which allows - direct access to native screen resources from within a Canvas's - paint method. GNU Classpath Examples comes with a Demo, see - examples/README. -* awt.datatransfer updated to 1.5 with supports for FlavorEvents. - The gtk+ awt peers now allow copy/paste of text, images, uris/files - and serialized objects with other applications and tracking - clipboard change events with gtk+ 2.6 (for gtk+ 2.4 only text and - serialized objects are supported). A GNU Classpath Examples - datatransfer Demo was added to show the new functionality. -* org.omg.PortableInterceptor and related functionality in other - packages is now implemented: - - The sever and client interceptors work as required since 1.4. - - The IOR interceptor works as needed for 1.5. -* The org.omg.DynamicAny package is completed and passes the prepared - tests. -* The Portable Object Adapter should now support the output of the - recent IDL to java compilers. These compilers now generate servants and - not CORBA objects as before, making the output depended on the existing - POA implementation. Completing POA means that such code can already be - tried to run on Classpath. Our POA is tested for the following usager - scenarios: - - POA converts servant to the CORBA object. - - Servant provides to the CORBA object. - - POA activates new CORBA object with the given Object Id - (byte array) that is later accessible for the servant. - - During the first call, the ServantActivator provides servant for - this and all subsequent calls on the current object. - - During each call, the ServantLocator provides servant for this call - only. - - ServantLocator or ServantActivator forwards call to another server. - - POA has a single servant, responsible for all objects. - - POA has a default servant, but some objects are explicitly - connected to they specific servants. - The POA is verified using tests from the former cost.omg.org. -* The javax.swing.plaf.multi.* package is now implemented. -* Editing and several key actions for JTree and JTable were implemented. -* Lots of icons and look and feel improvements for Free Swing basic - and metal themes were added. Try running the GNU Classpath Swing - Demo in examples (gnu.classpath.examples.swing.Demo) with: - -Dswing.defaultlaf=javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicLookAndFeel - -Dswing.defaultlaf=javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel -* Start of styled text capabilites for java.swing.text. -* NIO FileChannel.map implementation, fast bulk put implementation for - DirectByteBuffer (speeds up this method 10x). -* Split gtk+ awt peers event handling in two threads and improve gdk - lock handling (solves several AWT lock ups). -* Speed up awt Image loading. -* Updated TimeZone data against Olson tzdata2005l. -* Make zip and jar UTF-8 "clean". -* "native" code builds and compiles (warning free) on Darwin and - Solaris. - -Runtime interface changes: - -* All native resource "pointers" in the VM interface classes are now - exposed as gnu.classpath.Pointer objects. This might impact runtimes - that optimize and support java.nio.DirectByteBuffers. Creating these - classes and accessing the contents as void * pointers for the native - reference JNI implementation is done through the - JCL_NewRawDataObject and JCL_GetRawData functions. -* Simplified the Class/VMClass interface. -* Removed loadedClasses map from ClassLoader. It's now the VMs - responsibility to manage the list of defined and loaded classes for - each class loader. -* Moved native methods from java.lang.reflect.Proxy to VMProxy. -* Added hook to VMClassLoader to allow VM to do class caching. - -New Untested/Disabled Features: - - The following new features are included, but not ready for - production yet. They are explicitly disabled and not supported. But - if you want to help with the development of these new features we - are interested in feedback. You will have to explicitly enable them - to try them out (and they will most likely contain bugs). If you are - interested in any of these then please join the mailing-list and - follow development in CVS. - -* QT4 AWT peers, enable by giving configure --enable-qt-peer. -* JDWP framework, enable by deleting the jdwp references from - lib/standard.omit and vm/reference/standard.omit. No default - implementation is provided. Work is being done on gcj/gij - integration. -* StAX java.xml.stream, enable by deleting the gnu.xml.stream and - java.xml.stream references in lib/standard.omit. - -The following people helped with this release: - -Aaron Luchko (Lots of JDWP work) -Andreas Tobler (Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing -Andrew Haley (gcj build speedups) -Anthony Balkissoon (Lots of Free Swing work including JTable editing) -Archie Cobbs (Build fixes) -Audrius Meskauskas (Lots of omg corba work plus testing and documenting) -Bastiaan Huisman (TimeZone bug fixing) -Casey Marshall (NIO FileChannel.map support, security and policy updates) -Chris Burdess (StAX work and gnu xml fixes) -Christian Schlichtherle (Zip fixes and cleanups) -Christian Thalinger (64-bit cleanups) -Dalibor Topic (Qt4 build infrastructure) -David Gilbert (Basic and Metal icon and plaf and lots of documenting) -Guilhem Lavaux (JCL native Pointer updates) -Ingo Proetel (Image, Logger and URLClassLoader updates) -Ito Kazumitsu (NetworkInterfaces implementation and updates) -Jan Roehrich (BasicTreeUI updates) -Jeroen Frijters (VMProxy and VMClassLoader updates, RMIClassLoader fixes) -Keith Seitz (Lots of JDWP work) -Kelley Cook (Build fixes) -Lillian Angel (Lots of Free Swing work including JTree editing) -Mark Wielaard (Clipboard implementation, build and release infrastructure) -Rainer Orth (Build fixes) -Robert Schuster (Documentation updates and beans fixes) -Roman Kennke (Lots of Free Swing work including styled text) -Sven de Marothy (Qt4 peers) -Thomas Fitzsimmons (Lots of gtk+ awt peer work) -Tom Tromey (Lots of fixes including coordinating The Big Merge) -Wolfgang Baer (GapContent bug fixes) - -We would also like to thank the numerous bug reporters and testers! - -</pre> - -<footer> |