How can I contact the Sparc port developers?

2000-05-03 Thread Avi Cherry

I've had a few problems with the sparc port of the Blackdown 
JVM regarding threading issues and the HotSpot JIT.  I've sent a few 
messages to this list already and have traversed the bug tracker 
without any luck.  I did get a reply from a few people with 
suggestions, but none of them helped.\

Would it be possible for one of the developers/maintainers of the 
sparc port to contact me?

Since it appears that my software environment is identical to other 
ones running Java without any problems at all (from the discussions 
I've had with those that already replied to me), I've come to the 
hypothesis that the issues might SOMEHOW be related to the hardware 
I'm running on (a 40 Mhz Sparcstation 10.  Don't laugh. Please.).  I 
figure it's probably a safe assumption that the majority of 
development and testing has occurred on UltraSparc platforms, rather 
than SuperSparcs (or whatever is in my Sparcstation).

In any case, I'd be more than happy to offer an account and space on 
my server to one of the porting team members if they are interested 
in ironing out a few wrinkles in the current release.

Thanks,
Avi Cherry


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IBM has posted 1.3 pre-release

2000-05-03 Thread Nathan Meyers

IBM posted their pre-release JDK1.3 for Linux yesterday:

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/linuxjdk


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IBM has posted early-access JDK 1.3

2000-05-03 Thread David Marshall

fyi,

IBM has posted an early release of JDK 1.3 at Alphaworks.

See http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/linuxjdk

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IBM 1.3 AWT question

2000-05-03 Thread Nathan Ehresman

hey guys,

i don't have a glibc 2.1 box handy or i'd check this myself.  the
requirements include KDE or Gnome/Enlightenment.  just wondering if QT
or GTK is used instead of Motif maybe for the AWT??

thanks!

nathan


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Re: IBM has posted 1.3 pre-release

2000-05-03 Thread Nelson Minar

>IBM posted their pre-release JDK1.3 for Linux yesterday:
>http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/linuxjdk

This is awesome!

Has Sun given the Blackdown group access to JDK1.3 yet?

Things are getting interesting here, trouble is brewing between IBM
and Sun. I don't mind being part of the battleground if it means they
both support Linux.

IBM also released the AIX port of JDK 1.3 - did they come out
simultaneously? How closely does the IBM release track Sun's codebase?
I'd heard that IBM was doing some serious re-engineering.


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Re: IBM has posted 1.3 pre-release

2000-05-03 Thread Nathan Meyers

On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 10:53:35PM +0100, Dimitrios Vyzovitis wrote:
> Nathan Meyers wrote:
> 
> > IBM posted their pre-release JDK1.3 for Linux yesterday:
> >
> > http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/linuxjdk
> 
> Any ideas about the conjenctured open-sourcing of ibm-jdk1.3? The
> pre-release appears to be with a 90-day evaluation licence...

Whose conjecture is this? It's a port of the Sun JDK, with a lot of IBM
tuning. Last I heard, Sun isn't leaning toward adopting OSS licenses.

Nathan


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Re: IBM has posted 1.3 pre-release

2000-05-03 Thread Juergen Kreileder

> Nelson Minar writes:

>> IBM posted their pre-release JDK1.3 for Linux yesterday:
>> http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/linuxjdk

Nelson> This is awesome!

Nelson> Has Sun given the Blackdown group access to JDK1.3 yet?

Yes.

Nelson> Things are getting interesting here, trouble is brewing
Nelson> between IBM and Sun. I don't mind being part of the
Nelson> battleground if it means they both support Linux.

Nelson> IBM also released the AIX port of JDK 1.3 - did they come
Nelson> out simultaneously? How closely does the IBM release track
Nelson> Sun's codebase?  I'd heard that IBM was doing some serious
Nelson> re-engineering.

IBM has its own JVM.  Our 1.3 will have Sun's HotSpot VM.


Juergen

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alphaWorks and developerWorks Wireless

2000-05-03 Thread ssdhanoa





developerWorks and alphaWorks goes wireless

Get access to information about new developerWorks Java and Linux resources
wirelessly
with a Palm VII. dW has a growing collection of free developer resources
consisting of developer articles, sample code, news stories, case studies,
and tools. In addition, you can also keep informed about new and updated
technologies added to the alphaWorks website including the new JDK for
Linux 1.3.0

Download the aW-dW.pqa at:
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/aw.nsf/about?readform&/aw.nsf/html/dW+aW+wireless?open&l=258,t=gr




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Java-LinuxPPC (was: Re: IBM has posted 1.3 pre-release)

2000-05-03 Thread Avi Cherry

>IBM also released the AIX port of JDK 1.3


There's a couple of things that have me wondering why IBM does not 
come out with a port of their JDK for LinuxPPC:
1) IBM makes PPC chips.
2) IBM recently released a spec for a dual-processing PPC motherboard 
which is being manufactured by at least one company now, and it runs 
LinuxPPC.
2.5) LinuxPPC already runs on their RS/6000 platform.
3) IBM already has JDK (plus a good JIT) developed for the PPC 
platform, for AIX.
4) A high performance, stable JDK+JIT for LinuxPPC would likely sell 
more IBM hardware, either in the form of RS/6000 machines, or 3rd 
party motherboards.

Right now, the Linux PPC platform is stuck without a Java2 JDK that 
includes a JIT and that makes it just about useless for 
enterprise-style Java service systems, such as servlets.  Metrowerks 
released a JIT that works with the Blackdown JDK 1.1.8, but there 
isn't one for 1.2.2 or 1.3 yet and Metrowerks hasn't given any 
indication one way or another as to if they plan to release another 
one in the future.



I actually just had a conversation with Kevin Hendricks, who did the 
original port of the blackdown JDK to PPC, and he's currently looking 
for people to help out with the PPC port of Java.  He's especially 
looking for anyone with knowledge of PPC assembly, since he's 
currently trying to port sunwjit to PPC and is looking to perhaps try 
to port the Borland/Inprise JIT and possibly HotSpot as well, but 
he's currently working alone.  Sadly, I have no experience or skill 
with such projects as compilers and am therefore of little help to 
his effort.  He's asked that anybody who thinks they can help contact 
him.  His email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Avi Cherry


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Re: How can I contact the Sparc port developers?

2000-05-03 Thread Johan Vos

Hi,

I do have an old SS5 somewhere that I used for the JDK 1.1 port. I will
try to get it over to my place, and give it some upgrades (it might take a
while though before I have it here). Can you send me your configuration
(glibc-version and kernel)?

- Johan

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On Wed, 3 May 2000, Avi Cherry wrote:

>   I've had a few problems with the sparc port of the Blackdown 
> JVM regarding threading issues and the HotSpot JIT.  I've sent a few 
> messages to this list already and have traversed the bug tracker 
> without any luck.  I did get a reply from a few people with 
> suggestions, but none of them helped.\
> 
> Would it be possible for one of the developers/maintainers of the 
> sparc port to contact me?
> 
> Since it appears that my software environment is identical to other 
> ones running Java without any problems at all (from the discussions 
> I've had with those that already replied to me), I've come to the 
> hypothesis that the issues might SOMEHOW be related to the hardware 
> I'm running on (a 40 Mhz Sparcstation 10.  Don't laugh. Please.).  I 
> figure it's probably a safe assumption that the majority of 
> development and testing has occurred on UltraSparc platforms, rather 
> than SuperSparcs (or whatever is in my Sparcstation).
> 
> In any case, I'd be more than happy to offer an account and space on 
> my server to one of the porting team members if they are interested 
> in ironing out a few wrinkles in the current release.
> 
> Thanks,
> Avi Cherry
> 
> 
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