Escape the Java Trap! [1] - GNU Classpath Hacker Room
This should a fun event to attend:
Fosdem, Saturday/Sunday 26/27 February 2005, Brussels, Belgium
The Fosdem organisation has generously offered the developers of various projects around GNU classpath the opportunity to meet face to face in their own developer room.
We have brought together a wide range of different speakers from various projects that together provide a free software alternative to the proprietary java platform. Developers from these various projects will come from all over the world to discuss cooperation and to make development plans to the next year.
You are very welcome to join us and learn about the IKVM architecture
and how to freely mix and match traditional java and .net applications and libraries, how GNU and Apache developers can and should work together, how you can do rapid GNOME desktop development through java-gnome, how researchers are using GNU Classpath to do cutting edge research into Just In Time compilation, see demonstrations of lightning fast native eclipse, learn what will be possible with GNU Classpath and GCC 4.0, whether Kaffe will ever release their version 1.1.5, what we think about compatibility, freedom vs control and learn how you can create your own GNU Compiler Collection frontend for languages such as the 1.5 java programming language.
Full schedule and abstracts at the official Fosdem 2005 site:
http://www.fosdem.org/2005/index/dev_room_classpath/schedule
Saturday 14:00 - 17:00 - "Building Bridges"
Reaching out to other communities.
How can GNU Classpath, GCC/GCJ and Kaffe hackers learn
from and work together with others?
14:00 - 14:50
IKVM.NET - Motivation and Architecture.
Jeroen Frijters
15:00 - 15:50
Apache Gump - Continuous integration on steroids
Leo Simons
16:00 - 16:50
Liberation through Binding
- Using java-gnome to build desktop applications
Jeffrey Morgan
17:00 - 17:30
CACAO - From the fastest JIT to a JVM
Christian Thalinger
Sunday 10:00 - 13:00 - "Demo Time!'
Public presentations and overviews of the current state of the
GNU Classpath library , GCC/GCJ compiler and Kaffe runtime.
10:00 - 10:50
Free AWT and Swing - The GUI parts of GNU Classpath.
Thomas Fitzsimmons
11:00 - 11:50
GCJX - Writing a new GCC front end.
Tom Tromey
12:00 - 12:50
Kaffe - Past, Present and Future.
Dalibor Topic
Extra (13h15 - 13h30) GCJ & Native Eclipse
Lightning Talk: GCJ and the Eclipse IDE.
Bryce McKinlay
Sunday 14:00 - 17:00 - "The Future"
Technical Planning Session
This 3 hour session for hackers will consist of:
* A general part explaining what is needed.
* Splitting up in groups to discuss specific topics to solve
the problems and make development plans.
* A short present by each group about the ideas discussed.
Please add ideas and suggestions to the WIKI:
http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/Fosdem2005
[1] From "Free But Shackled - The Java Trap" by Richard Stallman
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html