Feedback request: OpenJDK Community Innovator's Challenge Grants

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 04/01/2008, Landon Fuller <landonf at threerings.net> wrote:
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> On Jan 3, 2008, at 00:32, Ray Gans wrote:
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> - What kind of projects do you think would be valuable to the OpenJDK
> community?
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> I'd love to see more community development on porting work -- including
> Mac OS X and BSD support (perhaps this is obvious, coming from me).
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> Speaking just for Mac OS, it still needs work on multiple fronts (via the
> OpenJDK Porting Group and FreeBSD Java Project):
> - Merging into OpenJDK (part of the larger BSD porting work).
> - Support for hotspot x86_32 16-byte stack alignment (vs. using
> -fstack-realign work-around)
> - x86_64 16-byte stack alignment fixes
> - Integration of PowerPC support? (gbenson's?)
> - Native AWT implementation
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> I'm not sure if this is something both Sun and the larger community are
> interested in =)
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> -landonf
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Speaking as part of the larger community, I'd say I'm definitely interested
in such work being done and I think the rate at which porting work has taken
place since the OpenJDK was released stands as a vindication of that process
(we already have a PPC interpreter, the OpenJDK class library also working
with cacao and your own Mac OS work).  Concerning the list you've supplied
here I'd say that the first (merging the BSD work) is more dependent on Sun
(like the bug system example) than such a project would warrant, the second
two seem two small to warrant a lengthy project (but correct me if I'm
wrong), while the last two sound about right to me.  As to a native AWT
implementation, I believe there was some success getting the Classpath Gtk+
implementation to work with OpenJDK.  Given that Gtk+ now supports Quartz as
a backend, making the Classpath implementation work with that backend and
then the Gtk+ peers work with OpenJDK would seem like a more manageable
target than starting from scratch (and would also benefit other Gtk+ users
in general and GNU Classpath... ;) )

-- 
Andrew :-)

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