Hi all,
Just joined the list and have been reading through the existing
guidelines and archives. I'd like to help.
I'm the primary author of the gnu.regexp regular expression package
(http://www.cacas.org/java/gnu/regexp/, now LGPLed) and have also been
using Aaron's gnu.getopt (thanks Aaron!). If anyone wants, for some
inexplicable reason, a pure-Java implementation of GNU grep, I have a
beta (uses gnu.regexp and gnu.getopt). Also, if regular expression
support would be useful in any of your efforts, I'd be happy to assist.
Perhaps gnu.getopt and gnu.regexp could go in a GNU Standard Extension
library. :-)
I've got a running clean room implementation of javax.servlet.http and
parts of javax.servlet (in concrete terms, a replacement for most things
required to run sun.servlet.http.HttpServer) that could be repurposed
for JCL/$classpath without too much trouble, if you think it would be a
worthy addition. If not, I'm willing to contribute whatever needs to be
written, but my experience tends not to make me best at AWT/applet
code. I'd also be willing to help on org.omg.* at some point (we can
leverage a lot of knowledge from some existing (L)GPLed ORBs like MICO),
but I'm assuming 1.2 features are not really a priority.
Let me know where to go from here.
Thanks,
Wes
P.S. My two cents on naming -- there seem to be a number of similar
projects, not so closely tied to GNU/FSF, with a lot of cute names.
Perhaps there would be some value in using "glibj" (as in glibc,
glibc++) in order to emphasize the GNU involvement and the project's
similarity to other development efforts under the FSF copyright
umbrella.
