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diff --git a/libjava/classpath/doc/www.gnu.org/announce/20060113.wml b/libjava/classpath/doc/www.gnu.org/announce/20060113.wml deleted file mode 100644 index 054185d87ec..00000000000 --- a/libjava/classpath/doc/www.gnu.org/announce/20060113.wml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,289 +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 0.20 Announcement (2006-01-13)"> -<pre> -GNU Classpath 0.20 released - -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 - -Some highlights of changes in this release (more extensive list below): - - New StAX pull parser and SAX-over-StAX driver. Full XMLEncoder - implementation. The packages javax.sound.sampled, javax.print.attribute - and javax.print.event have been implemented. Lots of new datatransfer, - print, swing and swing.text work. Performance improvements in the - painting/layout mechanism. Additional 1.5 support, including (separate) - generic branch release. SecurityManager cleanups and start of review - of all Permission checks. Buildable on cygwin. Fully buildable as - "in-workspace" library-plus-vm inside (native) Eclipse. Real world - Free Swing and CORBA example added. - -GNU Classpath 0.20 also comes in a "generic" version. -classpath-0.20-generics contains a version of the core library -that uses 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 should be able 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. - -(*) There is one additional VM interface needed for the VMClassLoader - static final Class defineClassWithTransformers(ClassLoader loader, - String name, byte[] data, int offset, int len, ProtectionDomain pd) - Which is used for the new java.management.instrumentation support. - See the VM Integration Guide for more details: - http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/docs/vmintegration.html - -Thanks to a donation of Berkeley Signal Inc GNU Classpath now has an -official autobuilder machine which is used for quality assurance, -regression testing, conformance reports and for publishing continous -snapshots. The machine can be reached as http://builder.classpath.org/ - -40 people actively contributed to this release and made -605 CVS commits during the last two months of development -(excluding the generics branch work). diffstat since 0.19: - 617 files changed, 89622 insertions(+), 37478 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=0.20 - -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/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 and Friends meeting (Feb 25/26, Brussels, Fosdem): - http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/events/fosdem06.html - -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 around 36.000 -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 35534 out of 36255 Mauve core library tests. - -Conformance reports for the included jaxp support can be found in the -doc/README.jaxp file. - -GNU Classpath 0.20 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-0.20.tar.gz -MD5sum: 21e34b8e8acb4f7b31296bfaf4ad560a -SHA1sum: c1a38c6c6b67d8c8092cc6af6d86d8c99dad272a - -File: classpath-0.20-generics.tar.gz (EXPERIMENTAL) -MD5sum: db3c235b1ea497d7d2e5852f167d2b31 -SHA1sum: 3d5f5cdd3dc51651f8b2c3765e30454931f45419 - -New in release 0.20 (Jan 13, 2006) -(See the ChangeLog file for a full list of changes.) - -* New StAX pull parser and SAX-over-StAX driver. Lots of DOM, SAX/StAX, - XPath and XSLT improvements. Support for XInclude and XML Base added. - Conformance is now regularly tested against various test-suites at - http://builder.classpath.org/xml/ See also doc/README.jaxp. - -* Full beans XMLEncoder implementation. - -* javax.sound.sampled implementation. - -* javax.print.attribute and javax.print.event implementated. - -* Lots of new datatransfer, print swing and swing.text work and optimization. - -* Additional 1.5 support. Including new (separate) generic branch release. - -* SecurityManager cleanups and start of review of all Permission checks - (includes adding lots of new checks to the Mauve test-suite). - -* Buildable on cygwin. - -* Fully buildable as "in-workspace" library-plus-vm inside (native) Eclipse - see http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathHackingWithEclipse - -* Full example that shows a real world CORBA and Free Swing implementation. - See examples/gnu/classpath/examples/CORBA/swing/README.html - -Runtime interface changes: - -* New method VMStackWalker.getClassLoader() was added to avoid an infinite - loop between getCallingClassLoader() and Class.getClassLoader(). - -* The included fdlibm implementation has seen several cleanups to handle - new architectures and namespacing issues (in particular for ppc, darwin - and non-C99 compilers). Please double check any arithmetic test against - new platforms/runtimes. - -* The gnu.java.net.Plain[Datagram]Socket implementations have been - turned into VM reference classes with JNI/Posix implementations. - -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. - -* Cairo Gtk+ Graphics2D support, enabled by giving configure - --enable-gtk-cairo. -* QT4 AWT peers, enable by giving configure --enable-qt-peer. - -The following people helped with this release: - -Andreas Tobler - Qt-4.1 support -Andrew Haley - Jar work and Jonas fixes -Andrew John Hughes - 1.5 generics language work -Anthony Balkissoon - Free Swing work -Anthony Green - Socket work -Archie Cobbs - New VMStackWalker work and JCVM integration -Audrius Meskauskas - Free CORBA work and various Free Swing fixes -Bryce McKinlay - Jar fixes -Caolan McNamara - Dom fixes and OpenOffice fixes -Casey Marshall - Crypto work -Chris Burdess - XML GNU JAXP work -Christian Thalinger - Various fixes, 64bit work and Cacao integration -Dalibor Topic - Build cleanups and Kaffe integration -David Daney - libgcj integration -David Gilbert - Free Swing work -Freebeans - Mysaifu Windows CE port and bug reports -Fridjof Siebert - Hashtable work -Gary Benson - Securitymanager and Permission work -Guilhem Lavaux - fdlibm cleanups, performance work and Kaffe integration -Ingo Proetel - Various fixes -Ito Kazumitsu - Regex, text and character conversion support -Jan Roehrich - Datatransfer work -Jeroen Frijters - SecurityManager, collections and IKVM integration -Joao Victor - Free Swing Timer work -John Zigman - SocketChannel testing -Keith Seitz - JDWP work -Lillian Angel - Free Swing work -Mark Wielaard - Bug fixes, packaging and release management -Nicolas Geoffray - 1.5 Class Instrumentation work -Paul Jenner - Installation and cygwin work -Petteri Raty - Configuration and Gentoo integration work -Raif S. Naffah - Security work and Eclipse integration -Riccardo Mottola - Powerpc work -Robert Schuster - XMLEncoder and beans work -Roman Kennke - Free Swing and AWT work, VM interface -Roman Schnider - AWT work -Sven de Marothy - Print and GTK+ work -Thomas Fitzsimmons - Free Swing and AWT work -Tom Tromey - Eclipse, gcj and gcjx integration -Wolfgang Baer - javax.print and friends - -We would also like to thank the numerous bug reporters and testers! -</pre> -<footer> |