From gbenson at redhat.com Fri Nov 30 03:50:20 2007 From: gbenson at redhat.com (Gary Benson) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:50:20 +0000 Subject: Introduction Message-ID: <20071130115020.GA5869@redhat.com> Hi all, So I thought I should introduce myself, for those of you who don't already know me. I'm Gary, I work for Red Hat, and my job of this last six months or so has been porting OpenJDK to ppc and ppc64 on Linux. Currently I have an interpreter-only build working on both platforms, using the C++ interpreter. It seems pretty stable too. The code is available at http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea I've been blogging about it on http://gbenson.livejournal.com/ So that's me... Cheers, Gary From puybaret at eteks.com Fri Nov 30 06:08:54 2007 From: puybaret at eteks.com (Emmanuel Puybaret) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:08:54 +0100 Subject: Introduction Emmanuel Puybaret In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi all, Let me introduce myself also. I'm Emmanuel Puybaret, a French freelance Java developer (so excuse me if my English isn't perfect ;-). I learnt Java 10 years ago and created since 3 GPL projects in Java : - PJA Toolkit available at http://www.eteks.com/pja/en/ is an AWT Toolkit for drawing graphics with servlets in a headless environment. - Jeks available at http://www.eteks.com/jeks/en/ is a spreadsheet based on the JTable component - Sweet Home 3D available at http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/ is an interior design application for end users. I also wrote a Java French tutorial a long time ago (you can read its TOC in English at http://www.eteks.com/ctojava.html ), and more recently two French books : - one about Java : http://www.eteks.com/services/cahierjava.html - the other one about Swing : http://www.eteks.com/services/cahierswing.html As you may have guessed, I'm the author of http://www.eteks.com web site, but don't have any blog. Thanks to PJA Toolkit and the writing of the book about Swing, I've got a deep knowledge of how AWT is designed, so I hope I'll be able to help on the port of AWT. Miserably, even if I work on Mac OS X at home, my knowledge of Cocoa/Carbon/Objective C is very very poor (I just tried once or twice to build very small applications a few years ago). So I hope we, as a team, will be able to work together on this port sharing our ideas and our knowledge. Working on an Open Source project in a team is an other thing I'm not used to, so please, feel free to explain how things should be managed on this project. At this time, I don't have time available for this project, but from mid-January 2008, I'll be able to contribute at full time during a few weeks. My main idea at this time is to try to write first an AWT Toolkit port based on SWT, because I feel it would be much easier than with JNI and Cocoa. Anyway, as we have a few weeks left until I'm available for contributing, maybe other interesting ideas will come up here and then, we'll see how to do. Best regards to you all and let's hope we'll succeed. -- Emmanuel PUYBARET Email : puybaret at eteks.com Web : http://www.eteks.com From volker.simonis at gmail.com Fri Nov 30 09:41:25 2007 From: volker.simonis at gmail.com (Volker Simonis) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:41:25 +0100 Subject: Introduction .. continued Message-ID: Hi folks, my name is Volker Simonis. I'm currently working for SAP. We have ported the HotSpot to four (ok, let's say 3.5, because Itanium was already present - at least somehow:) new processor architectures (Itanium, PA-RISC, PowerPC and z/Architecture) and three new operating systems (AIX, HPUX and AS/400). Although we ported Java 5 (and currently Java 6) we are still highly interested in the OpenJDK porting projects, because sooner or later the efforts of the OpenJDK porting projects will hopefully also show up in the SunJDK version. I forgot to say that while we use both, the C++ and the Template Interpreter (depending on the platfom), we only ported the C2, server compiler to new platforms. I'm looking forward to hopefully lively discussion in this group... Volker From Dmitri.Trembovetski at Sun.COM Fri Nov 30 10:53:51 2007 From: Dmitri.Trembovetski at Sun.COM (Dmitri Trembovetski) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:53:51 -0800 Subject: more introductions Message-ID: <47505C3F.1040109@Sun.COM> Hello everybody. My name is Dmitri Trembovetski (known sometimes as either 'tdv' or 'trembovetski' on the forums, irc). I'm with Sun's Java2D team. Currently I mostly focus on Sun implementations' Windows rendering pipelines (GDI, D3D) but I used to work on the X11 pipeline before. Thanks, Dmitri From fred at fredjean.net Fri Nov 30 11:52:44 2007 From: fred at fredjean.net (fredjean.net @ GMail) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:52:44 -0700 Subject: Introduction Message-ID: <47506A0C.2050900@fredjean.net> Hi, My name is Frederic Jean. I am a Sun employee working in the Software organization. I am not involved with the JDK development team, but I have a dire need for Java 6 on Mac OS X. I am currently using SoyLatte to fill this need. Fred From puybaret at eteks.com Fri Nov 30 12:10:33 2007 From: puybaret at eteks.com (Emmanuel Puybaret) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:10:33 +0100 Subject: mac.javazone.org forum In-Reply-To: <47505C3F.1040109@Sun.COM> Message-ID: Hi, Vijay Kiran Duvvuri created a forum http://mac.javazone.org/forum/ about Java port (see his message at http://lists.apple.com/archives/Java-dev/2007/Nov/msg00681.html ). This is a nice idea, but I'm wondering if doubling the places where we can talk about Java port is very effective at this time (even if Vijay's forum is more dedicated to Mac OS X). What's you mind about this ? Best regards -- Emmanuel PUYBARET Email : puybaret at eteks.com Web : http://www.eteks.com