[kaffe] Bug Report: in particular for rmi

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Jeremy Buisson wrote:
> Hi !

Re-salut ;)

> I noticed the merge, a bit later... In facts, I still have to complain :p

Good! Someone is looking over my shoulders!

> The version of GNU Classpath that have been merged still have bugs in 
> serialization code (at least in java.io.ObjectInputStream, method 
> readClassDescriptor which uses the wrong resolveClass method at the 
> wrong time, and then do not make use of redefined methods in derived 
> classes). Such bugs are fixed in newer versions of Classpath. So I 
> wonder whether there is a *nice* way to benefits from fixes in Classpath 
> when using Kaffe.

Guilhem has been fixing Classpath's code after he merged it in. I don't 
think his patches made it back into GNU Classpath already (they are in 
release freeze mode right now), but I hope they will. So if something 
broke during the merge effort, please post a test case (since the 
current serialization code passes all of kaffe's regression tests), and 
(if you can) a patch (if it's a simple merging issue, that shouldn't be 
that hard ;), so it can go into kaffe's CVS (and eventually Classpath's).

A nice (as in automated) way of merging the diffs between kaffe and 
classpath is not really possible, since some classes are different for a 
reason (like the RMISecurityManager from Classpath preventing RMI to 
work at all in kaffe ;). But any help for the merges is appreciated. I'm 
  trying to stage them more regularly, but wouldn't mind someone helping 
out, and pushing classpath merge patches to me more regularly.

cheers,
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