Hal Vaughan <hal <at> thresholddigital.com> writes: > Blackdown, and all the other FOSS implementations of Java are noble > undertakings and I look forward to the day I can use a completely FOSS > version of Java on Linux, OSX, and the Redmond OS.
Unfortunately, Blackdown is neither Free Software nor Open Source. It is a port of Sun's proprietary source code and therefore must abide by Sun's licening rules, which explicitely prohibit reuse of Sun's proprietary source code in open source projects. > I will also be VERY glad > when GCJ is done and I can compile my classes into native code. Depending on your classes, that is possible today already. Fedora Core 4 ships 120+ packages all built with gcj. > However, > until then, not all classes are implemented in any FOSS version of Java. ~80% of 1.4 are done atm, feel free to help finish off the rest faster. Fixing puzzling bugs beats solving crosswords on a lazy sunday ;) > For > me, the biggest problem is that they don't include the GUI classes. I think > one has some AWT classes, but I have yet to see anything other than Sun's JVM > that has Swing working. Most of AWT is done, afaik, Swing is being rapidly hacked on. Swing is a bit of a complex API, though, and chances are it will take a little while to make it all work as well as the rest of the system. Use SWT, AWT, Java-GNOME or SwingWT instead, which all work fine, or do yourself a favour and use a really good cross-platform toolkit like Qt. It's Free Software, comes packaged with Debian, and in general beats dealing with Swing by miles. ;) cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
