java-devel December 2006

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Let's go to JavaOne!
by Fernando Lozano 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

First of all, I'm sorry for the cross-post, but I hope you'll find this message useful. While we all are extasiated with Sun GPLed JDK releases, I'm afraid many are missing the fact JavaOne call for papers was already opened and the deadline for submissions is at *December, 15*. We never had a better climate for presentations related to free software Java projects and it would be wonderful to have everyone there: Classpath, GCJ, Kaffe, Java-Gnome, JPackage, IKVM, Cacao, Sable, ... You may be wondering: “What will I do at the big Sun tradeshow as a open source hacker”? There you'll find a great pool of potential users and contributors, most of all already oldtime users of free software like Ant, Maven, Eclipse, Tomcat or JBoss. But few of them who actually realized all free software can do for them. Most of them will still be puzzled by Sun OpenJDK announcement. The general Linux and free software community, and the general Java community, share many of the same goals and also share many ideas on how to get there. But most of the time they don't talk to each other. There a lot of misunderstadings from each other but I believe both have much to learn from the other. Java developers are yet too much corporate-driven and they need our help on how to become community-driven. Of course, many of you earn you living as open source consultants, techinical writers, or selling other IT services. The event would be a big showroom for potential customers. :-) I was there twice as a speaker, and offer my help to anyone wishing to submit proposals. And even if your proposal isn't selected, or you afraid to speak in a room that may have more than a thousand people, I may get you a place at the Java.Net community corner. If you do sumbit a talk and it is accepted, please mail me so I can see you and announce it in java.net. []s, Fernando Lozano

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Eclipse on Linux Distributions eclipse.org project approved
by Andrew Overholt 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

Hi, At EclipseCon 2006, Ben Konrath and I met Matt Ryan from Novell. We talked about the general issues hurting Eclipse adoption in the Linux and FOSS communities. Matt took the lead out of our conversations and along with “Eclipse people” from other major distros, we proposed [1] the “Eclipse on Linux Distributions” project at eclipse.org. Last week, the project had its Creation Review [2] and it was a success! I’d like to see most, if not all, of the work that our group is doing — ChangeLog, autotools, specfile editing, packaging tools, etc. — get more visibility as part of this project. We’re also looking forward to collaborating with developers and packagers from other distributions. Having this work under the eclipse.org umbrella will give it better exposure and hopefully help in achieving our goal of bringing Eclipse technology to Linux distribution users. As usual, everyone is invited to join in our work. We hope to see some of you on IRC (#fedora-java), fedora-devel-java-list(a)redhat.com, the upstream mailing lists (linux-distros-dev(a)eclipse.org ... at least for now - it may change to be linuxtools-dev(a)eclipse.org but that's yet to be finalized), etc. Thanks, Andrew [1] http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/linux-distro/ [2] http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/linux-distro/LinuxDistrosCreationReview.pdf

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Patch: Automake Editor (just Makefile editor for now)
by Andrew Overholt 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Hi Jeff, Attached is a patch to add an automake editor extension to the autotools plugin. It is just a re-use of the CDT's existing Makefile editor for now, but it at least gives us syntax highlighting :) Okay to commit? Thanks, Andrew 2006-12-01 Andrew Overholt <overholt(a)redhat.com> * src/com/redhat/eclipse/cdt/autotools/editors/automake: New directory. * src/com/redhat/eclipse/cdt/autotools/editors/automake/AutomakeEditor.java: New file. Simple extension of MakefileEditor for now. * plugin.xml: Add automake editor.

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