Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 01:04:56 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Speeding up Application Development and Deployment Message-ID: <199904160804.BAA89595@rah.star-gate.com>
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Use a java to native code compiler such as Electrical Fire: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ef/ The catch ? EF is a compiler on its early stages there is more work to be done however it does compile and run mighty fine on FreeBSD. ****Want a task list:********* Scott Furman from netscape wrote: Amancio Hasty wrote: >> As low level compiler works continues , is there a task list of things >> that needs to get done to get a robust fully functionable EF release? > There is the developer roadmap that hangs off the EF homepage. > I haven't updated it in more than a month, yet it's still fairly up to date: > > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ef/plan.html >What this document probably does not do well is rank the importance >of the various tasks. Here are the top tasks, roughly in decreasing order of >importance > Integration of EF with Java runtime libraries, either ClassPath's or JDK1.2's or both > Integration of SportModel garbage collection code > Improved build system in which dependencies are handled properly, > possibly also with some unification between Windows/Unix > Automated build with Tinderbox reporting > Automated testing, probably using new Mauve test suite >At the moment, I'm spending my time on the build issues. > Hopefully, I'll have something usable in the next few weeks. --------------------------------------------------------------- Top priority implement JNI for EF so that GNU's classpath library (http://www.classpath.org ) can be integrated into EF. -- Amancio Hasty hasty@star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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