GNU Classpath & friends meeting during Fosdem 2006. The various free software library, runtimes, compiler and tool projects around GNU Classpath will meet in Brussel to discuss what has happened in the last year in the Free Software community and what the next year will bring us during Fosdem. The 6th edition of FOSDEM (Free and Opensource Software Developers' European Meeting) will take place on February 25+26 2006 in Brussels (Belgium), at the Solbosch Campus of the ULB (Free University of Brussels). FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event for the community and organized by the community. See http://www.fosdem.org/ The program will be as follows: - Saturday from 13:00 to 17:30 - "End-User talks" Presentations that show what cool stuff can be done with the Free Stack right now. - Putting the 'Free' into JFreeChart Dave Gilbert, JFreeChart Project Leader A review of the efforts to make JFreeChart work with GNU Classpath-based runtimes, including a brief history, a demonstration of the current state (using the java bindings for Cairo), and an overview of the work that remains to be done. - Using Eclipse for GNU Classpath development Tom Tromey Learn how to setup a fully working development environment based on GNU Classpath in Eclipse that can be used to bootstrap the full free toolchain (and can be used to run Eclipse itself) in just 10 minutes. - Eclipse RCP and GCJ/GIJ Wayne Beaton Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) is a runtime platform for delivering your Java applications on multiple platforms. RCP is far more than just a windowing toolkit; it is rich client "middleware" that provides a comprehensive framework for building and deploying applications that are modular, extensible, and updatable. The kinds of applications you can build with Eclipse RCP are limited only by your imagination. During this talk, we will discuss how the Eclipse RCP can be used in conjunction with the Eclipse Eco-system and GCJ/GIJ to build high quality applications. If there is time at the end of the day we would like to do a Show-And-Tell where people do quick Demos of applications running on a completely free stack. Ideas and suggestions welcome. - Sunday from 09:00 to 13:00 - "Developer talks" Presentations of (core) libraries and runtimes that are in progress, made a lot of progress in the last year and are in active development. - Free Swing, past, present and future Roman Kennke An overview of that state of Free Swing one year ago, what has been done in the meantime, what still must be done and which applications work now. - The Free CORBA comes Dr Audrius Meskauskas If the Free world does not want to step back in the battle, we need a complete set of the Free tools for advanced communication over the network. For our CORBA implementation we needed: 1. Free. No classes with restricted license. 2. Fully workable, interoperable and pass tests, recognized by the CORBA user community as serious (we needed to find a well known Free testing suite). 3. Properly commented, being ready for the long life in the Free world. 4. No pressure to use the outdated approaches. CORBA 3.0.3 and jdk 1.5. To reach these goals, we have chosen for implementing a clean room implementation, using the published standard specifications only. During the recent year of the GNU Classpath development, this goal is in large degree achieved. The important directions of future development could be providing features that are outside the scope of the both CORBA standard and Sun API, but included in the near all proprietary implementations (SSH, HTTP and other bridges, get rid of rmic code generator for RMI/IIOP, fault tolerant behavior, reduced the footprint and others). - The JamVM runtime Robert Lougher An overview of the JamVM virtual machine, with comparisons to other GNU Classpath runtimes, and a section on the VM interface. - Integrating Vmgen-based interpreters Christian Thalinger Vmgen is a tool for writing efficient interpreters. The Cacao runtime recently added a Vmgen based interpreter in addition to the JIT engine. - Sunday from 14:00 to 17:30 - "The Future" Interactive technical hacker discussions on how to integrate the projects more and move forward in the next year. - State of the world, beyond japi Mark Wielaard, GNU Classpath Maintainer After a short overview of the various free stacks, libraries, compilers, tools and runtimes this session is mostly open discussion about what work remains to be done and how to integrate the various efforts better. Ideas for work items welcome. We hope to see you in Brussels on February 25 and 26 2006, If you have suggestions or ideas for the demos and discussion sessions please contact us at fosdem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Arnaud, Dalibor, Mark, Michael and Tom -- Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html Join the community at http://planet.classpath.org/
