Feedback request: OpenJDK Community Innovator's Challenge Grants

[Arnd-Hendrik Mathias]

Hi Andrew,

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> Have you looked at IcedTea? (http://icedtea.classpath.org)
Thanks for the hint. It looks cool.
> It at least gets rid of the binary plugs issue and goes a long way to 
> making the build process usable.  Hopefully Sun will integrate these 
> changes at some point.
I'd welcome this to happen.
> The issue of having a Java VM+class library already will remain a 
> problem because there are no non-Java compilers any more (for 1.5 
> on).  It's pretty much Sun's or the Eclipse compiler, both of which 
> are written in Java, so you need a Java VM + class library to run them.
How about some concept like using some java2native compilers or some 
java enabled gcc to build the necessary set of bootstrap JDK components 
in a pre-build-step and then using these for building the real OpenJDK.
> I'd love to see Ant disappear as a requirement, but Sun are moving in 
> the opposite direction (using the Ant build for langtools, etc. was 
> introduced in b21). 
Sounds not so good.
> If it could be built using the autotools like most FOSS projects, that 
> would be ideal.
Yes! Yes! Yes!... ;°)

By the way...as another "proposal" (already asked a number of times by 
different people): Are there currently any plans or activities to create 
an OpenJDK SeaMonkey(Mozilla)-plugin?

Arnd-Hendrik