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Many things will change for the Linux community during and after JavaOne, and this page will be completely revamped to account for that chance. New projects are about to join the community, and new possibilities will be opened. Stay Tunned!
(May 15, 2006)
Java One mini-talks for Linux users
The Java.Net Community Corner in the Java One Pavillion will feature a few talks of special interest for Linux developers, ranging from on Sun proprietary JVM and new JCP standards to F/OSS JVMs. —
Fernando Lozano
 Eclipse On Linux Working Group
Novell, Red Hat and others are proposing a new Eclipse project focused on a better user experience for Eclipse on Linux, with a focus on making Eclipse packaging and updating compatible with Linux package managers like RPM. I hope they collaborate with the JPackage project!
 A Look at GCJ 4.1 (by Mark Wielaard)
Version 4.0 of GCJ introduced a new deployment model that made is much easier for distributors to package traditional Java programs as native applications without requiring any source level changes. For version 4.1 of GCJ, this new binary compatibility (BC) ABI has also been used for parts of the core library. This change means that those parts of the core library can easily be upgraded with newer versions by the end user.
Kaffe 10th aniversary!
"In Feb 6 1996, Tim Wilkinson released the first version of Kaffe as version 0.1, which is the first independent free and open source implementation of Java Virtual Machine" (by Jim Huang). Note that this was about just a year after Sun released the first Java release!
When Applets are not WORA
During the end of 2005 I had a customer who could not run a Java Applet on his desktops, despite having the latest update from Sun. And the desktops ran the fastest-growing OS and browser in the market today —
Fernando Lozano
Stallman leads the GPL off a cliff (ZDNet)
When a blogger trashed the anti-DRM features of the GPL3 draft, common sense from the community was quick to show how biased the blogger was and how the draft was sound.
micro-libgcj: A lightweight alternative to Java.
From the projet home page:
"micro-libgcj is a lightweight version of the GCJ projectÂs runtime library (libgcj), intended to provide a usable subset of JavaÂs features while remaining small and self-contained.
We started this project with the goal producing small, self-contained executables from a mix of Java and C++, targeting four platforms: Win32 (i386), Mac OS X (PPC), and Linux (i386 and amd64). GCC is an ideal tool for this purpose, since it is widely ported, and its Java and C++ compilers produce ABI-compatible object code
If you use Linux, you should use JPackage
Life of Linux System and Network Administrators and Developers would be easier if all Java software vendors started to use JPackage guidelines when b uilding their installation packages. —
Fernando Lozano
JFreeChart now runs with F/OSS Java VMs
Has JFreeChart escaped the Java Trap? Yes!!! At least partially, if the chart image below is anything to go by. It has been created using JamVM, GNU Classpath, Cairo (via the bindings provided by the Java-Gnome project), JFreeChart and a custom class CairoGraphics2D.java - no proprietary software required!
Escaping the Java Trap: A practical road map to the Free Software and Open Source alternatives
This document, created colaboratively by many open source Java developers from meetings initiated by SouJava and edited by Mark Wielaard, presents the current state of Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) projects that aim to deliver a complete Java stack. It provides an overview about runtimes, compilers, libraries, applications, packaging into Linux distributions and Java SE / EE coverage and certification initiatives. It's a great place to start learning about the effort to have compatible F/OSS Java implementations.
JamVM 1.4.0
From Mark Wielaard:
Robert never pushes JamVM very hard. But he really should! His latest JamVM 1.4.0 release adds impressive new features (Soft/Weak/Phantom References, optimized garbage collector, language and reflection type access checks, GNU Classpath 0.19 and CVS support plus improved/added support for PPC-32/64, AMD64 and kfreebsd) and feels really stable. Go Robert!
Moving to Linux
During a recent debate about Java, Linux and OSS I have observed that some old fears are still alive and are still avoiding a collaboration between the OSS community and the Java community. Underneath the traditional flames involved in such discussion, there is an open question to be answered: Why the Java developers doesn't use Linux as development platform ?. —
Felipe Gaucho
Ubuntu Review
Approximately in June or July of 2005, I started weaning myself off of my powerbook G4, and learning the Gnome environment under Ubuntu (v5.04, now v5.10).
Overall, it's been a terrific experience, and it's looking like I've come here to settle down.
So I thought I'd summarize my experiences, from my perspective as a Java software developer, and as a computer user in general. —
Eitan Suez
Java2D/JOGL Interoperability
Details (and screenshots) on the improved Java2D/JOGL interop story in the latest Mustang and JOGL builds... More improvements to the OpenGL-based Java2D pipeline in Mustang b51 (and b53)... And a big thank you to the attendees and event staff at JavaChina 2005... —
Chris Campbell
Real, supported, module development has arrived
If I were starting a project based on the netbeans platform now, I would not use my cluster build harness. I'd use 5.0 builds, and I'd begin with Geertjan's (most finished) tutorial.
—
Rich Unger
Java Research License Update
Sun has updated its Java Research License (JRL) to address several concerns brought to us by the developer community. This revision better clarifies Sun's intent for the JRL and should help to make the license more agreeable to those who may have had questions about some of its language in the past. These clarifications should not affect any projects currently using the JRL on java.net. —
Ray Gans
Easier to access GlassFish
We removed click-through and just made it easier to participate in project GlassFish. —
Carla Mott
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