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For example the GCC (gcj) and Kaffe projects will use the +developer snapshots as a base for future versions. + +Some highlights of changes in this release (more extensive list below): + + Much more efficient painting for large Free Swing GUIs. Improved + accessibility support. HttpURLConnection rewrite. Official CORBA + VMCID assigned. Start of RMI over IIOP support. Qt4 support for + OS-X. Much improved Free Swing Metal theme. Free Swing Demo includes + theme switcher example (Metal, Ocean, GNU). JBoss now starts up and + Jonas testsuite passes for 95%. Support for the javax.sound.midi + framework and experimental DSSI and ALSA service providers. Early + version of the popular StAX API. Now has 96% coverage of 1.4 API. + +This is the first time we also have a pre-release of our 1.5 generics +work. classpath-0.19-generics contains a version of the core library +that uses the new 1.5 language features such as generics and +enumerations. ECJ and JamVM are known to support the generics release +out of the box. And you should be able to run Eclipse 3.1 with it to +develop programs that use the new 1.5 language and core library +additions. classpath-generics is a work in progress and not as +extensively tested as our regular releases. But please try it out if +you want to help us test the new 1.5 support of the core libraries. + +For this release we setup a Free Swing Test Application page +http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/FreeSwingTestApps +Please see that page for showcases of applications that work with this +release and to help test other applications. + +It is also the first release that has GNU Classpath promotion banners. +http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathBanners +Please feel free to add them to your project pages if your project is +known to work with GNU Classpath or just to promote the project. + +32 people actively contributed to this release and made +787 CVS commits during the last two months of development +(excluding the generics branch work). diffstat since 0.18: + 1158 files changed, 93916 insertions(+), 36407 deletions(-) + +More details about the various changes and contributions below. + +A full list of bug reports fixed for this release can be found at: +http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=classpath&target_milestone=0.19 + +This release depends on gtk+ 2.4 for AWT support. But gtk+ 2.6 or +higher is recommended. Included, but not activated by default in this +release is a Graphics2D implementation based on the Cairo Graphics +framework (http://www.cairographics.org). Enabling this makes programs +like JFreeChart and JEdit start up on GNU Classpath based runtimes. +To enable this support install the cairo 0.5.x snapshot, configure GNU +Classpath with --enable-gtk-cairo. + +One of the major focuses of the GNU Classpath project is expanding and +using the Mauve test suite for Compatibility, Completeness and +Correctness checking. Various groups around GNU Classpath collaborate +on the free software Mauve test suite which contains around 34.000 +core library tests. Mauve has various modules for testing core class +library implementations, byte code verifiers, source to byte code and +native code compiler tests. Mauve also contains the Wonka visual test +suite and the Jacks Compiler Killer Suite. +See for more information: http://www.sourceware.org/mauve/ +This release passes 33.381 out of 34.262 Mauve core library tests. + +Conformance reports for the included jaxp support can be found in the +doc/README.jaxp file. + +GNU Classpath 0.19 can be downloaded from +ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/classpath/ +or one of the ftp.gnu.org mirrors +http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html + +File: classpath-0.19.tar.gz +MD5sum: 0b93b1c1dd3d33ef7fb6a47dbb29e41d +SHA1sum: 43d499e8b83e04a7fc4a1d4d301638c5cec6c679 + +File: classpath-0.19-generics.tar.gz (EXPERIMENTAL) +MD5sum: 4c0ccc91a147af4010d19f48dbf441b3 +SHA1sum: b2a2b968523b3af35cd7e44bcc4f940621b3ca66 + +The GNU Classpath developers site http://developer.classpath.org/ +provides detailed information on how to start with helping the GNU +Classpath project and gives an overview of the core class library +packages currently provided. For each snapshot release generated +documentation is provided through the GNU Classpath Tools gjdoc +project. A documentation generation framework for java source +files used by the GNU project. Full documentation on the currently +implementated packages and classes can be found at: +http://developer.classpath.org/doc/ + +New in release 0.19 (Nov 2, 2005) +(See the ChangeLog file for a full list of changes.) + +* The Swing RepaintManager has been reworked for more efficient + painting, especially for large GUIs. + +* The Swing layout manager OverlayLayout has been implemented, the + BoxLayout has been rewritten to make use of the SizeRequirements + utility class and caching for more efficient layout. + +* Improved accessibility support for Swing. + +* The java.net.HttpURLConnection implementation no longer buffers the + entire response body in memory. This means that response bodies + larger than available memory can now be handled. + +* The Andrew Watson, Vice President and Technical Director of the + Object Management Group, has officially assigned us 20 bit Vendor + Minor Code Id: 0x47430 ("GC") that will mark remote Classpath - + specific system exceptions. Obtaining the VMCID means that GNU + Classpath now is a recogniseable type of node in a highly + interoperable CORBA world. + +* Classpath now includes the first working draft to support the RMI + over IIOP protocol. The current implementation is capable for remote + invocations, transferring various Serializables and Externalizables + via RMI-IIOP protocol. It can flatten graphs and, at least for the + simple cases, is interoperable with Sun's jdk 1.5. + +* Qt4 configury switches for OS-X. Additional to the --enable-qt-peer, + OS-X users with a Qt4 installation can build the qt-peers with the + argument --with-qt4dir=<Qt4-installation-dir>. + +* Significant progress has been made in the implementation of the + javax.swing.plaf.metal.* package, with most UI delegates in a + working state now. Please test this with your own applications and + provide feedback that will help us to improve this package. + +* The GUI demo (gnu.classpath.examples.swing.Demo) has been extended + to highlight various features in our free-swing implementation. And + includes a look and feel switcher (Metal default, Ocean or GNU). + +Runtime interface changes: + +* Changed implementation of VMClassLoader.getPackage(s) : new method + VMClassLoader.getBootPackages should be implemented by the vm, and + sould return a string array of boot package names ("java.lang", + "java.net", ...). Feedback from vm implementors for usability and + relevance of the getBootPackages method would be greatly + appreciated. + +New Untested/Disabled Features: + + The following new features are included, but not ready for + production yet. They are explicitly disabled and not supported. But + if you want to help with the development of these new features we + are interested in feedback. You will have to explicitly enable them + to try them out (and they will most likely contain bugs). If you are + interested in any of these then please join the mailing-list and + follow development in CVS. + +* Cairo Gtk+ Graphics2D support, enabled by giving configure + --enable-gtk-cairo. +* QT4 AWT peers, enable by giving configure --enable-qt-peer. + +The following people helped with this release: + +Andreas Tobler + Qt4 support for Darwin/OSX, Graphics2D support, gtk+ updates. +Andrew Haley + Serialization and URLClassLoader fixes. +Andrew John Hughes + Serialization fixes, Properties XML support and generic branch work. +Anthony Balkissoon + Lots of Free Swing additions. +Anthony Green + MIDI framework, ALSA and DSSI providers. +Audrius Meskauskas + Lots of new CORBA and RMI work and bugfixes. +Casey Marshall + Crypto algorithm fixes. +Chris Burdess + StAX and dom xml:id support. +Christian Thalinger + Configuration and VM inteface fixes and CACAO integration. +Dalibor Topic + Build cleanups and Kaffe integration. +David Daney + HttpURLConnection rewrite and improvements. +David Gilbert + Lots of Free Swing and metal theme additions. +David Lichteblau + JCL support library global/local reference cleanups. +Gael Thomas + VMClassLoader boot packages support sugestions. +Guilhem Lavaux + Configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe integration. +Jan Roehrich + BasicTreeUI fixes. +Jeroen Frijters + Serialization fixes, better Proxy support, bug fixes and IKVM integration. +Julian Scheid + Documentation updates and gjdoc support. +Keith Seitz + JDWP support. +Lillian Angel + Lots of Free Swing additions. +Mark Wielaard + Bug fixes, packaging and release management +Martin Cordova + Suggestions for better SocketTimeoutException. +Michael Koch + Configuration fixes. +Nicolas Geoffray + VMClassLoader and AccessController improvements. +Paul Jenner + Better -Werror support. +Robert Schuster + XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bug fixes +Roman Kennke + Lots of Free Swing additions. +Santiago Gala + AccessControlContext fixes. +Stuart Ballard + RMI constant fixes. +Sven de Marothy + BMP imageio support, CSS and TextLayout fixes. +Thomas Fitzsimmons + Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free Swing bug fixes. +Tom Tromey + Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bug fixes and gcj integration. + +We would also like to thank the numerous bug reporters and testers! +</pre> +<footer> |