Hi all, during our meeting in Karlsruhe, some of you said that they will come to LinuxKongress, which will take place from October 14-16 in Saarbrücken/ Germany.
In previous years, there apparently was an opportunity for so-called Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) Sessions. In my understanding, this is basically a fancy name for "meeting." So, I think it would be good to have a discussion/BoF about graphics in GNU Classpath. If others are interested as well, I will submit the following announcement to LinuxKongress. If you have any comments or suggestions, please comment :-) Best regards, -- Sascha Sascha Brawer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.dandelis.ch/people/brawer/ ============================== BoF: Graphics in GNU Classpath ============================== Background ---------- Many existing Java(TM) applications depend on the Java2D(TM) API, a very well-designed, powerful set of high-performance graphics routines. Most applications use this graphics library indirectly through the Swing(TM) toolkit, which is the most widely used API to write interactive applications in the Java(TM) programming language. It would be very desirable for GNU Classpath to support the Java2D(TM) API. However, the current state of graphics support in GNU Classpath is extremely limited. Purpose of the meeting ---------------------- - To discuss whether the goal is realistic at all. - To determine which parts are most urgently needed, and which parts are less important. - To find a structure of the code that can support several target platforms. For example, the requirements are rather different for remote X11, local X11, IKVM.NET, Jaos/Oberon, embedded devices with framebuffers, or pure Java operating systems. Ideally, it would be possible to find a clean way to structure the code so that most parts are shared. Who might be interested ----------------------- - People who know about X11, XRender, OpenGL(TM) or some other graphics API - People who are familiar with the Java2D(TM) APIs - Implementors of virtual machines - Contributors to GNU Classpath Of course, everyone is welcome! Related links ------------- It would be good if the attendands could get familiar with some of the relevant APIs. Of course, knowledge about Java2D(TM) would be especially important. - Programmer's Guide to the Java2D(TM) API ftp://ftp.java.sun.com/docs/j2se/1.4/j2d-book.pdf (PDF), http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/2d/spec/j2d-bookTOC.html (HTML) - The X Rendering Extension http://keithp.com/~keithp/render/protocol.html - X11 Manual pages http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/manindex3.html - OpenGL(TM) Overviews http://www.opengl.org/developers/documentation/overviews.html - OpenGL(TM) Specification http://www.opengl.org/developers/documentation/version1_4/glspec14.pdf _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath