Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:06:14 +1030 (CST) From: Greg Lewis <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au> To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Pre-alpha JDK 1.2.2 patches -- announcement Message-ID: <200003212336.KAA03989@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au>
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[Apologies for the length of this message and the next, they both got a little longer than I had hoped.] I have placed some source code patches for the JDK 1.2.2 source at http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsd-jdk122-patches-3.tar.gz (this message is included in the tar ball as the file ANNOUNCEMENT). Contained in the tar ball are also the patches themselves, some INSTRUCTIONS and a list of ISSUES. These patches should be considered to be in a PRE-ALPHA state. This is because not all the functionality of a standard JDK 1.2.2 is present, not all the relevant FreeBSD releases are supported, and also because the testing so far as been relatively light. Please note that these patches are completely UNOFFICIAL. Do not abuse the FreeBSD Java porting team about them, abuse me :). On the other hand, you should definitely include the FreeBSD Java porting team in any praise about them (see the note below about thanks). So, you are probably at this point wondering how useful any JDK you build using these patches is. Personally, I have had all the Swing example applications (e.g. SwingSet) running (see ISSUES though). The code has also been run through the Mauve testsuite (see the thanks note below) and currently tests identical to the Solaris reference implementation save for one problem. There are however things which I know do not work, such as the JDBC-ODBC bridge (see ISSUES). Additionally, I do not doubt there are many bugs or problems which have yet to be discovered. These patches will certainly not yield a production quality JDK 1.2.2. These patches are being released in the hope that the FreeBSD Java community will take them up and work on them. If you're one of the people who has asked about when JDK 1.2 will be available for FreeBSD, think about putting in some time to make it happen, these patches will hopefully provide a launching pad for any effort. Please note that these patches are not in any way meant to fragment the FreeBSD porting effort. I have the utmost respect for the hard work the porting team has put in and I sincerely hope that these patches can generate some activity which will prove beneficial to the porting team. These patches came about because I'm not sure I have enough time to put into the porting effort to see it through (the porting team don't need more people who are too busy :) but I did have an "itch to scratch". If you do download the patches and get something working, please let me know. If you find a problem, please also let me know, but don't expect that I'm going to fix it (I will if I have time). If you decide to take on one of the ISSUES, please also let me know (I'll try and coordinate things). And, of course, I'd love any additional patches people come up with. Finally, and possibly most importantly, these patches are really just a set of fixes and updates on top of other people's work. These people deserve a big vote of thanks (and as above, none of the abuse). 1. Kees Jan Koster and Victor Salaman for stepping forward and testing the patches. They both pointed me at several problems along the way and in particular Victor identified some problems on 4.0 and Kees Jan ran the JDK through the Mauve test suite. Many thanks! 2. These patches are based really heavily on the earlier patches by Thomas Mittelstaedt which can be found at http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Thomas.Mittelstaedt/jdk12_FreeBSD.html I believe his were, in turn, somewhat based on earlier work by Keith White which is at http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~kwhite/java2/ And of course, I'm sure these in turn are based upon the patches for JDK 1.1.8 from the FreeBSD Java porting team (as I believe Keith is a member of the porting team). 3. The FreeBSD Java porting team. This work is built upon their work for JDK 1.1.8 and I referred to those patches many times. 4. The Blackdown Linux team, who indirectly provided a fully featured JDK 1.2.2 which could be used to bootstrap the build and to compare against. -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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