hi, i don't know if this is a good address to send this mail, but i hope so. we're developing a lot on java under linux and we have 4 full-time very good programmers that use almost all of the capabilities of the core jdk1.2 (that is jdk1.1 + swing + corba + jdbc + rmi + DnD). we ran into loads of problems related to the famous glibc2.1 and the fact that the jdk is ported to linux quite a while after the windows/solaris versions. we've discovered quite a few bugs in these APIs and submitted them, sometimes even submitted code fixed, to sun's bug parade. but after a while we unfortunately discovered that it took way less time to just fix them ourselves or use workarounds. so we have a quite improved version of swing for ourselves (dev use only, non commercial at all) and customized some tools like javadoc. and few of our bug reports seem to have been listened to. so we'd like to participate to the porting of the jdk1.2, actively, not really porting it, but by using it a lot we can find several important bugs or improvements i think and send you the result. we've traced some problems with DnD down to native call and although we have the solaris sources (downloaded from the Sun site) for jdk1.2 we cannot compile anything under linux. we often trace problems down to native methods and we'd like to be able to then get into this native stuff and not stop there. my question is there: is it possible to have the sources for the linux port of the jdk1.2, or the patches on the solaris source, and if yes, would you be interrested by our bug/fix reports for your release ? i think it's always nice to get a bug report with a fix at the same time, don't you think? thanx for an answer, Stef. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ ~ I just realized that not only our business model was ~ Stef ~ copyied from our ants' our building is built in the same ~ the ~ way : it's a kind of cave, where we hid our employees in ~ i n ~ the downer parts, whereas some are left on the street ~ n a ~ level (the only one able to withstand a fight with the ~ f i ~ customers). And of course the boss, just as the queen of ~ ormagic ~ ants is in the deepest cave, well guarded. ~ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ These are only some stupid signatures, i never said you had to read them... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
