Kaffe and JavaSoft Compatibility

[Maksim Lin]

Peter C. Mehlitz wrote:
 
> We are currently working on swing compatibility (which apparently doesn't work
> on the AWT spec-basis, but requires a lot of "JDK-like" behavior). With some
> delay (well, there is a tribute to small teams..), we will also tackle the 2D
> and 3D APIs (the 2D coming first, with a very interesting approach..).
> 
> Yes, we will extend this towads 1.2, but keep a strong emphasis on the "small
> and simple" principle (that has been abandoned by others..). This is what makes
> it sometimes hard to implement these add-ons (e.g. swing), or to keep
> compatibility (e.g. with deprecated mechs like the 1.0.2 events). I'm hoping
> that the web will help out with more exotic things (APIs), we simply can't do
> all at once.

Great, looking forward to it.
 
> > I saw a couple threads about a modified BISS-JDE.
> > Saw the pics on
>  >the Kaffe page too.  Please feed my hunger for a REAL full
> > featured JDE!
>  >Release it on the Kaffe page!!!  Please...
> 
> One of the things which have to be postponed.. I first would like to make
> it free of BISS copyrights before releasing it, and I definitely would like to
> integrate it with the VM (on-demand reloading of classes, memory statistics,
> breakpoints and that stuff).
> 
> -- Peter

I was hoping you were going to release it as well, but oh well, guess
I'll learn alot about biss, if I go and hack on the JDE abit myself.

However there seem to be some serious running the standard 
biss-jde-0.94 under the current ver of kaffe - it can come up ok (thanks
for the previous tip) but doesn't really work properly - I've started
trying to do some testing to find out whats wrong, once I figure it out
I'll let the list know.

For the integration with the VM stuff (on-demand reloading, etc) perhaps
you might want to have a look at echidna
(http://www.javagroup.org/echidna/) which lets who have run multiple
"processes" inside one VM and does stuff like reloading classes.

Maksim.

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Maksim Lin

Centre for Object Technology Applications and Research
Swinburne University of Technology

http://www.csse.swin.edu.au/maksim
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