As you can tell, there's been a flurry of activity from me this weekend on
the integration of Classpath and Japhar. Things are moving pretty quickly.
I have the Java and native side done for Object, System, Class, ClassLoader,
SecurityManager, and Runtime. And I have the Java side done for Thread now,
as well as a lot of ThreadGroup. I am running into a few problems in
Japhar, which will be most easily remedied when stubs is no longer a
requirement. All in all, things are going well and I expect to have a
decent version running fairly soon. (Depending on how well things go, that
could mean between one week and one month ... RL is busy right now).
I suggest someone get the Makefiles ready to easily build classpath.zip.
That is priority one on the Classpath side for release, and I don't have
time to do that part ... I've been kludging things to get it to work well
enough to make Japhar and Classpath work together.
Also, could someone introduce a framework into Classpath so that we can
load those native libraries on demand? I don't think we should have to
build them directly into Japhar, but some of our native libraries aren't
getting loaded without an explicit loader. I'm not sure where it should
happen, or when, though.
--John Keiser
