[fedora-java] Fedora Core 5 Wishlist

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

Hi,

I tried to send this yesterday but there was a problem with the Fedora
list servers.

Tom

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim at redhat.com>
> To: fedora-devel-java-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Fedora Core 5 Wishlist
> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:16:31 -0400
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been thinking about my GCJ-related goals for Fedora Core 5, due out
> February 2006.  Here's a categorized list:
> 
> java-gcj-compat
> ===============
> 
> - GNU Crypto fix for Eclipse extssh support:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=146782
> 
>   Casey Marshall has already committed a Diffie-Hellman JCE provider to
> GNU Classpath so this is just a matter of testing.
> 
> - import all JAWT fixes:
> 
>   All the necessary patches are already in GNU Classpath and libgcj so
> this is just a matter of testing that JOGL works properly on our
> java-1.4.2-gcj-compat RPM.
> 
> - Jessie merged into GNU Classpath
> 
> - GNU Crypto core algorithms merged into GNU Classpath
> 
> - gjdoc merged into GNU Classpath and thus ...
> 
> - an --enable-javadocs option to libgcj
> 
> - gcjx becomes java-gcj-compat's javac and javah commands:
> 
>   Not sure if this one is doable in time; I don't mean full gcjx, just
> the bytecode-compiler portion of it split off into a standalone javac
> executable.
> 
> - include Tritonus or some sound implementation
> 
> AWT
> ===
> 
> - ImageMagick backend for ImageIO
> 
> - Graphics/Imaging refactoring for GTK 2.8 and Cairo
> 
> - MegaMek packages in Fedora Extras:
> 
>   http://megamek.sourceforge.net/
> 
>   This just involves a few AWT bug fixes now.
> 
> - fix all 1.5 japi issues in the java.awt.* packages
> 
> - fix all 1.5 japi issues in the javax.imageio.* packages
> 
> Swing
> =====
> 
> - RHDB tools in Fedora Extras:
> 
>   http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/administrator.html
> 
>   http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/visualexplain.html
> 
>   http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/controlcenter.html
> 
>   This will also require updating these tools to support PostgreSQL 8.0.
> 
> - Limewire in Fedora Extras:
> 
>   http://www.limewire.org/
> 
>   It would be absolutely awesome to have this Swing app working on the
> free stack but I'm not sure it's doable in the FC5 time frame.  Would
> anyone like to undertake it? ;-)
> 
> SWT
> ===
> 
> - Azureus in Fedora Extras:
> 
>   http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
> 
>   Again, not sure if this is doable before FC5 but this would be awesome
> to have.
> 
> gcjwebplugin
> ============
> 
> - implement and test security features in GNU Classpath to allow running
> untrusted bytecode
> 
>   It's very unlikely that this one will be finished before FC5 but I'd
> like to at least have started the implementation by then.
> 
> I'm hoping this list will inspire some volunteers, especially for the
> big apps and GNU Classpath's security framework.  Most of these items
> are very doable and will greatly improve the free JPackage stack on
> Fedora.
> 
> Tom
>