http://fitzsim.org/blog Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:54:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’m planning two Fedora Features for OpenJDK in Fedora 10. I’ll write the Wiki pages soon. Improved Multilib Support for JDK Packages The first feature is improved multilib support for Java packages. This will involve fixing the darn persistent rpm scriptlet argument bug and adding multilib support to jpackage-utils and java-1.6.0-openjdk. ... http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=27 OpenJDK 6 was released in Fedora 9. Yay! The name change is satisfying and it’s great to see the past 6 months’ efforts come to fruition. For me this isn’t quite as exciting as the release of Fedora 8, which was the first distribution release to include ... http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=24 CommunityOne 2008 Monday, May 5 I thought my CommunityOne talk, The IcedTea Project: Developing OpenJDK for Deployment on GNU/Linux, went pretty well. The audience was small but full of important people Martin Buchholz introduced himself after my presentation and we chatted a little about Google’s plans to contribute ... http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=25 My FOSDEM talk was on IcedTea and LiveConnect. I’ve been working on a gcjwebplugin rewrite called IcedTeaPlugin on-and-off for the past five months. Whereas gcjwebplugin is a Netscape 4.x plugin, IcedTeaPlugin is an XPCOM plugin that implements OJI — the Open JVM Interface — for LiveConnect support. ... http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=23 On Monday, I found Conkeror through the EmacsWiki. It’s a Firefox extension that provides an Emacs-like interface to the browser. It includes all the essential Emacs features (minibuffer, incremental search, bookmark tab completion, buffer management) and an additional killer feature: numbered links. I’ve always wanted an efficient ... http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=22 I integrated gcjwebplugin into the IcedTea repository today. With Sun’s class library I’m able to install a proper applet security manager so that gcjwebplugin can run untrusted applets safely. http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=21 Here are some testing strategies that I’d like to see implemented for IcedTea. I’ve asked one of our interns to investigate these points. Reduce Mauve-on-IcedTea failures to 0 Provide reproducible way of running Mauve on IcedTea which should result in 0 failures “make dist” target for Mauve Once these are complete we can ... http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=20 Here are some thoughts about how to make OpenJDK easily maintainable on Fedora. Achieving this goal will require changes to OpenJDK, updates to the Fedora implementation of the JPackage conventions and an rpm patch. Here is a list of problems and a strawman solution for each. Each item needs ... http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=19 I’m experimenting with GNOME’s accessibility support; specifically, how it interacts with Swing and AWT applications. I’m impressed with the framework’s implementation. I had trouble saving GOK’s alternative pointer device setting, and there seems to be an issue with having the alternative pointer device control the core pointer, but ... http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=18 Our team at Red Hat has been doing some planning now that OpenJDK has been released. First, a summary of OpenJDK’s status: What Sun has released: most of the 1.6-level JDK, including: the Hotspot virtual machine with x86 and x86_64 JITs the Java compiler most of the class libraries What Sun hasn’t released: 4% of the ... http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=17