On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 10:11:56AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > Hi, > > What is the big picture of the current status of a completely > DFSG-Free Java environment? Do we have tools that work on non-i386 > platforms? Do we have tools that work with Java 1.2? With JFC/Swing? > What DFSG-free tools are there that we have for:
> * Java compiler (.java to .class) There is the Kopi Java Compiler <http://www.dms.at/kopi/kjc.html> written in Java. And the super fast Jikes written in C++ <http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jikes/>. > * JVM (with or without JIT) We have Kaffe <http://www.kaffe.org/> (which comes with a big class library) and Japhar <http://www.japhar.org/> > * Compiler (to native executable) GCC, the Gnu Compiler Collection comes with GCJ, the Gnu Compiler for Java > * Debugger (jdb equiv) None that I know of > * appletviewer tool I believe Kaffe comes with one > * jar tool FastJar <http://fastjar.sourceforge.net/> which is indeed very fast! > * javadoc tool None that I know of. Most of the Standard classes for Java 1.2 (except Swing and RMI) are implemented by the ClassPath project <http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/>. Most of the RMI classes are implemented by NinjaRMI <http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mdw/proj/ninja/ninjarmi.html> And there is a free testsuite Mauve <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/mauve/> to test if those tools are 'compliant'. So we are almost there. Now start implementing that debugger, the Swing classes and a Javadoc tool and we are done :) Cheers, Mark
