Sun: All Java Belongs To Us - Comments On The JDocs.com Crisis

2004-08-19 Thread Gerald Bauer
t we are making steady progresss and people helping out to make sure our implementations is as bugfree as possible. (The kaffe developers with which we work closely together have asked a couple of times for the "official" JDK TCK to run against kaffe under acceptable GPL compatible

Sun Tells Javalobby To Pull All Sun Java APIs Off jdocs.com

2004-08-19 Thread Gerald Bauer
//www.javalobby.com/nl/archive/jlnews_20040818o.html - Gerald Gerald Bauer Viva! Free Java Now Campaign | http://viva.sourceforge.net The Java Republic | http://viva.sourceforge.net/republic _

Questions for the Java Open Source "Debate" at JavaOne

2004-06-27 Thread Gerald Bauer
he Linux desktop to .NET. I'm curious to hear what Sun has to say about this. Do they notice this? Do they care? Do they think there is some other strategy to change this? Full story @ http://www.peakpeak.com/~tromey/blog/2004/06/25/#free-java5 - Gerald Gera

Questions for the Java Open Source "Debate" at JavaOne

2004-06-27 Thread Gerald Bauer
he Linux desktop to .NET. I'm curious to hear what Sun has to say about this. Do they notice this? Do they care? Do they think there is some other strategy to change this? Full story @ http://www.peakpeak.com/~tromey/blog/2004/06/25/#free-java5 - Gerald Gera

Re: Sun Lawyers Attack The Java Republic News Blog

2004-06-15 Thread Gerald Bauer
va trademark policy before investing any further effort? Is a free Java runtime possible at all or will Sun sue you if you don't license and pay up for the Java trademark and Java (TM) technology APIs and compatibility tests and so on? - Gerald Gerald Bauer Viva!

Just Say Viva! Just Say Kaffe - Java Rebranding Campaign Kicked Off

2004-06-15 Thread Gerald Bauer
aries? * Why not use Shark or Viva/J or Kaffe/J for the language? * Why not use Linux for the operating system? Any thoughts? Any suggestions? - Gerald (*) Sun Lawyer: As you know, Java is a Sun trademark that is used to designate certain Sun technologies, as well as Sun products and se

Sun Lawyers Attack The Java Republic News Blog

2004-06-14 Thread Gerald Bauer
rand their island? See the email titled "Sun's Java Trademarks" yourself online @ http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00025.html Any comments? - Gerald ---- Gerald Bauer Viva! Free Java Now Campaign | http://viva.sourceforge.net The Java Re

Poll Results: Do you want to see Java set free (that is, open sourced)?

2004-04-26 Thread Gerald Bauer
olls collection online @ http://viva.sourceforge.net/polls.html - Gerald ---- Gerald Bauer Viva! Free Java Now Campaign | http://viva.sourceforge.net The Java Republic | http://viva.sourcefor

DevX Online Poll: Should Sun Distribute an Open Source Version of Java with IBM?

2004-04-05 Thread Gerald Bauer
Definitely. The open source community would be a better steward. * Maybe, but what's in it for Sun? * Either keep pace with .NET or open it up so I can. Cast your vote today @ http://www.devx.com/DevX/Poll/20576 - Gerald ---- Gerald Bauer Viva! Free Java

Poll: Do you want to see Java set free (that is, open sourced)?

2004-03-27 Thread Gerald Bauer
lstation online @ http://viva.sourceforge.net/republic/2004/03/poll_do_you_want_to_see_java_set_free_that_is_open_sourced.html - Gerald PS: You can find an alternative poll by Carlos E. Perez online @ http://www.manageability.org/polls/should-sun-make-java-open-so

[ANN] Viva The Java Republic! Forum Now Live at The Javalobby

2003-09-24 Thread Gerald Bauer
nologies * Viva! - Take Action Now - Join The Free Java Now Campaign * Groovy - Jazzing Up Plain Old Java Full story @ http://www.javalobby.org/forum.jsp?forum=156 - Gerald PS: What is Viva! What is the Java Republic? The Viva! site collects links to core open source Java building bloc

[ANN] The Java Republic - Chronicle of The Free Java Now Campaign Goes Live

2003-08-14 Thread Gerald Bauer
* Kaffe 1.1.1 Goes Live Full story @ http://viva.sourceforge.net/republic Any comments? - Gerald __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ---

[ANN] Viva - Open Source Java Site Goes Live

2003-07-22 Thread Gerald Bauer
ure Sun to open-source the Java core and to help secure the future of Java as an open royality-free standard * more to come Full story @ http://viva.sourceforge.net Comments? Suggestions? - Gerald __ Post your fr

Java3D examples

2000-02-04 Thread Gerald Quintana
1 entry Dynamic loading lock: Monitor IO lock: User signal monitor: Waiting to be notified: "Signal dispatcher" (0x8101418) Child death monitor: I/O monitor: owner "AWT-Motif"

JIT/Hotspot/Interpretor Information

1999-12-08 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
With all the recent news regarding Java/Linux (and being hit by the idea that there really isn't any useable open source Java engine), I became interested in the general topic of JITs, Hotspot-type engines (what's it called .. dynamic compilation?) and bytecode interpretors. Can anyone recommend

Sun's hiring Linux guys

1999-11-11 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
Hey. > Does it mean that Sun wants to get more involved in the > Java-Linux-development? Seems to be. http://www.javasoft.com/jobs/D/Job5440.html One peculiar thing about the web page: "Typical number of years of relevant experience: 35" I assume that really meant "3-5". Or otherwise it m

Re: Linux Desktop based on JDK 1.2

1999-06-30 Thread Gerald de Jong
ere must be a pared down kernel somewhere using libvga. if the AWT could be implemented in libvga, the fun would begin. -- Gerald de Jong, Beautiful Code B.V. Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Tel. +31655893940 http://www.beautifulcode.nl -

Re: Java IDE

1999-06-30 Thread Gerald de Jong
ely tool! when a JDK for Linux appears which also has the debugging interface, Elixir will also debug. (they've got it working on windhose and solaris). it's even got some jar tool stuff, and obfuscation. http://www.elixirtech.com -- Gerald de Jong, Beautiful Code B.V. Rotter

Platform dependence of Java2 source ...

1999-06-29 Thread Gerald
Hi all. Alright. In order to gain a good understand of the issues that have arisen during the port of Java2 on Linux, I have read over the past messages regarding technical difficulties in the port. There seem to be several main ones: - Linux threads are screwy and the Java2 source (J2S) uses S

Other ports

1999-06-26 Thread Gerald
Besides the Blackdown 1.1.x/1.2 ports and the IBM 1.1.6 port, are there any other ports (as opposed to actual implementation like Kaffe) underway to provide a useable Java implementation for Linux? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

What's so platform dependent with Java2 source?

1999-06-26 Thread Gerald
First, no I haven't read the source; my views are based on my thoughts. Why has it been so difficult to port Sun's Java2 source to Linux? I was under the impression that a) Sun isolated their platform-dependent parts, b) all the rest of the code is in portable, standard C, and c) the source cod

Native Threads

1999-05-13 Thread Gerald de Jong
i downloaded the v3 JDK, and also the native threads stuff. i would like to RTFM about how to make use of the native threads stuff, but i don't know where the M is. can somebody point a finger? -- Gerald de Jong, Beautiful Code B.V. Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Tel. +31655893940

Re: Sun Bashing 2

1999-04-30 Thread Gerald de Jong
r one thing, i'm having more fun than i ever was. Java has defined a big milestone, and given its momentum i doubt that anything similar will have much of a chance. it will have to be another milestone, a kind of paradigm shift. until then, let's code! -- Gerald de Jong, Beautiful

A Good Overview of Java-Linux

1999-04-30 Thread Gerald de Jong
for those of you looking for a good overview of the various efforts underway and the products currently available in the Java-Linux domain, this may be a nice article to read: http://www.gamelan.com/journal/techfocus/042199_jlinux.html -- Gerald de Jong, Beautiful Code B.V. Rotterdam, The

Problem with JSplitPane on 1.1.7 and Swing 1.1.1b2

1999-04-27 Thread Gerald Preissler
Hello folks, could anyone please tell me if this is a problem with the Blackdown JVM or with Swing pre Java 1.2. Under JDK 1.2 on NT, the attached code works as I expect it to, i.e. if I click in a TextField, I see a caret and the event-listeners get events when I click, press enter etc. Under

Re: Big-Endians

1999-04-21 Thread Gerald de Jong
e java classes (such as DataInputStream) do things big-endianedly > 2. the jvm is responsible for hiding the endianness of the platform > 3. as a result of (2) there is nothing a 100% java app can do to determine > the endianness of the platform it's being run on. bingo. -- Gerald de

Sun's Agenda?

1999-04-21 Thread Gerald de Jong
;s interest in having it run Java well will grow accordingly. as long as it can be tamed. -- Gerald de Jong, Beautiful Code B.V. Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Tel. +31655893940 http://www.beautifulcode.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Native Java applications

1999-04-13 Thread Gerald de Jong
#x27;s called "native Java" i believe. or do you prefer "native code"? -- Gerald de Jong, Beautiful Code B.V. Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Tel. +31655893940 http://www.beautifulcode.nl -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Still troubles with the libraries and jdk1.2

1999-04-10 Thread Gerald de Jong
end them. all i had to do to get jdk1.2 running on RH 5.2 is make the following symbolic link, which i made in the /opt/jdk1.2/jre/lib/i386 directory. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Apr 6 18:44 libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2 -> /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8.0* -- Gerald de Jon

Re: Hatred of 1.2 messages

1999-02-27 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
At 08:45 AM 2/26/99 -0800, you wrote: >>>>>> "GG" == Gerald Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >GG> Then the web page is only providing most potential users with >GG> a table full of colors and very little information for which >GG&g

Re: Hatred of 1.2 messages

1999-02-26 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
>Please understand that we're doing what we can. Yes I understand and appreciate your effort. I'm sure you can understand my intentions as well. I am only trying to influence those whom I see as threats to your effort to change for the better. >I think it's pretty common knowledge now that sche

Re: Hatred of 1.2 messages

1999-02-26 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
to know what tests the telco has done and what tests remain. Likely you won't understand it even if they tell you. You just want to know whether your line will be operational in time for that phone interview an hour from now. At 12:08 AM 2/24/99 -0600, you wrote: >Gerald Gutierrez <[

Hatred of 1.2 messages

1999-02-23 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
>Maybe we could add a "Asking when 1.2 will be done will result in >unsubscription from this list and subscription to as many AOL spam lists >as possible. Don't ask!!" I'm starting to get the feeling that many in this group are approaching "when will 1.2 be out" messages with a very dishearteni

Green/Native threads

1999-02-06 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
The difference between "green" threads and "native" threads is that in the latter the operating system provides for thread support while in the former the application, in this case a JVM, builds its own thread support on top of one native thread. Hence, if a JVM's green thread implementation doe

SUN "supports" Java on Linux?

1999-02-05 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
So what exactly did SUN do when they spoke of their "support of the Linux developer community" (http://java.sun.com/pr/1998/11/pr981102-01.html)? I've heard that they released the JDK1.2 source to Blackdown prior to their releasing the final JDK1.2 on their web site, but surely this couldn't have

Re: little endian & big endian

1999-02-05 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
As mentioned below, class files are MSB. That is defined in the Java specification. For serialized objects, one only has to look at the serialization source code. The specification also indicates that a VM's internal representation is implementation dependent. The common sense of most people who

Re: Swing applications + TYA 1.2?

1998-12-14 Thread Gerald Preissler
Bryce McKinlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was going to send this to Albrecht Kleine (author of TYA), but can't seem to > resolve his mail address, so I'll post it here. Origional message follows: > > -- [error message sniped] > Environment: - Kernel 2.1.131ac8 - glibc 2.0.7-29 - J

Re: (no subject)

1998-11-27 Thread Gerald Waugh
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Re: Sun to deliver JDK 1.2 for Linux

1998-11-03 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
Jauvane Cavalcante de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I just read the following news about Sun's plans about Java for Linux: > http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/981102/sun_micros_3.html > I guess you would be interested as well. Does this mean that when Sun unveils their JDK1.2 on their web site, yo

Sun's ORB & Java-Linux

1998-10-13 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
Has anyone got Sun's ORB to work with Linux's Java port ? I'd like to use CORBA with Java but it says on Sun's web page that JavAIDL is for JDK1.2 only. It'd also be great if the ORB is actually stable. Suggestions for alternative ORBs perhaps ? Thanks.

Re: Swing and Threads

1998-10-11 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
> Short answer the UI used a single DPSContext you were free to create as many as > you wanted. Thre creation is expensive > I never used more than two. > The Contexts were individually thread safe. So you can eather create a new Context > or manage your default one. > You were gasp given a ch

Re: Swing and Threads

1998-10-11 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
> > Well that illustrates my point. A developer should not have to do that. > > The Swing team should provide the queue interface it should not have to be > > cobbled together by every developer that wants to write a complex graphics > > program. > > I never had any problems with Display Postscri

Where is Java Image -> X11 Image code ?

1998-10-10 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
I sent this message before, but I don't think it made it to the list, so I'm trying again. I'm looking for the C code which converts a Java image ( in the form of an int array ) into the coorsponding X11 image. I thought it would be straightforward, but I can't seem to find it. The closest I got

Where is code for Java image -> X11 Image ?

1998-10-09 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
I've been looking at the 1.1.7 source code. I'd like to find the C code which takes a Java image in int array format, like what is passed to a MemoryImageSource, and converts it into an X11 image for display. I think it's somewhere inside the src/solaris tree in a directory with a bunch of awt_*.c

Re: JDK 1.1.7 source released yet?

1998-10-07 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
Michael Thome wrote: > > Any of you noncom licensees been able to get their 117 distribution > yet? Sun keeps pointing me at files on their server that don't exist. I downloaded mine this morning.

How long will it take to port 1.1.7 ?

1998-10-02 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
I'm curious. How long does it usually take to port the full 1.1 JDK ? I'd guess that since all the 1.1.x are all just bugfixes of the previous version, the changes shouldn't be that extensive. Having all the changes made to the previous versions should speed things up too. Am I wrong ?

Re: JDK & native threads

1998-09-24 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
> If you check the Java-Linux bug database (jitterbug) you will see > that I was the one to report this and that Kevin was the one who > did most of the work to address this. Jitterbug ? Is that the "Bug Reporting" page on Blackdown ?

Re: JDK & native threads

1998-09-23 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
> (Ok, so on older versions, reads from STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR were a problem > but this has been addressed) > Are you sure ? The following seems to indicate that at least STDIN will block everything. import java.io.*; public class Threads extends Thread { public static void main (String[]

JDK & native threads

1998-09-23 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
I'm starting to pull out my hair from the fact that the current JDK is based on user threads. I can't call anything that can potentially block, because everything will block. An alternative is Kaffe, but it's too incomplete to be usable right now. Is anyone working on producing a version of the J

V4a crashes on startup

1998-09-07 Thread Gerald . Struck
1 => libgdbm.so.1.7.3 libdb.so.1 => libdb.so.1.85.2 /lib: libm.so.5 => libm.so.5.0.9 libc.so.5 => libc.so.5.4.33 libncurses.so.3.0 => libncurses.so.3.0.970515 libdl.so.1 => libdl.so.1.9.2 ld-linux.so.1 => ld-linux.so.1.9.2 Thanx, Gerald

Re: this must be a bug

1998-07-01 Thread Gerald . Struck
Richard, your PipedOutputStream has to be connected to a PipedInputStream before being used. Gerald

Re: What is the difference between protected & public?

1998-06-16 Thread Gerald . Struck
you're not using any 'package'-statements, so the code in both files is part of the same unnamed default package. Hence B.getY() does have access to A.y. Gerald