Re: issue using jfree chart with gnu classpath 0.98

[Jan Pannecoeck <jpa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew,

Thanks for the remark, I didn't know I was checking against an old 
implementation of GNU Classpath! Thanks for the link to the new site!!

Dhaval, sorry that I gave you the wrong answer!! I hope your problem can 
be fixed soon!

Good luck,
Jan Pannecoeck

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/8/17 New User <jpa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm not part of the GNU Classpath team, but I'm using it and well, I have to
> >
> > say that I love it! At least for embedded systems it's great...
> >
> > But to answer your question, the method font.getName() isn't implemented
> > (yet) in GNU Classpath 0.98. You can check the coverage for GNU Classpath
> > against Java 1.5 on this site: http://www.kaffe.org/~stuart/japi/htmlout/h-
> > jdk15-classpath.html
> >
> > There you can find: 'method java.awt.Font.getName(): missing in classpath'.
> > What is a nice answer I guess... It don't means that you can't use the
> > java.awt.Font, but the method .getName isn't implemented yet.
> >
> > I hope this is a good answer for you question...
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Jan Pannecoeck
> >
> >
> >
> > Dhaval Yoganandi <dhaval.yoganandi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >     
> > Hi GNU classpath team,
> >     
> > > I'm facing some problem using jfree chart with GNU classpath 0.98 and
> > > JamVM. I'm using a redhat based linux which is only console based linux
> > > and doesn't support desktop and graphics. while running following demo
> > > in my machine with JamVM I get NullPointerException but it is working
> > > fine with JDK 1.5 with update 14. While generating chart with jfree
> > > chart it is also giving the same error.
> > >
> > > import java.awt.Font;
> > > public class FontDemo{
> > >       public static void main(String args[]){
> > >               Font f = new Font("SansSerif", Font.BOLD, 18);
> > >               System.out.println(f.getName());
> > >       }
> > > }
> > >
> > > OUTPUT:
> > > /bin/jamvm/bin/jamvm -cp . FontDemo      Exception in thread "main"
> > > java.lang.NullPointerException
> > >  at java.awt.Font.getName(Font.java:427)
> > >  at FontDemo.main(FontDemo.java:5)
> > >
> > > can you shed some more light on this issue ?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Thanks and Regards,
> > >
> > > Dhaval Yoganandi,
> > > Jr. Software Engineer,
> > > Elitecore Technologies Ltd.
> > > Cyberoam.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >       
> >
> >
> >     
>
> Jan,
>
> Thanks for the positive comments.  However, the link you refer to is
> very outdated (2007).  If you check:
>
> http://builder.classpath.org/japi/jdk15-classpath.html
>
> you will find results against the current version of GNU Classpath,
> rebuilt several times daily.
> Links to this are available on the GNU Classpath homepage:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath
>
> getName() is implemented, that's why it throws a NullPointerException
> rather than not compiling.  Dhaval, please file this as a bug at
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla
>