Java development on Fedora

[W. Michael Petullo]

Yes, I am replying to myself.  No, I'm not psychotic!

> Recently, I noticed that gcc's SRPM contains libswt-gtk2.spec.   
> However, I have not yet seen this package in Fedora's development  
> packages.  Is this package on its way?

I'm sorry, I made a mistake.  Libswt-gtk2.spec is not included in gcc's  
SRPM.  But I'm still very curious to hear if anyone hopes to package  
libswt-gtk2 for Fedora seperatly from eclipse.  I've now used libswt- 
gtk2 to write a few simple test applications (without eclipse) and it  
seems to work -- at least for simple tasks.

> Also, are there any plans to configure gcc with --enable-java- 
> awt=gtk?  My understanding is that this is required to get the GTK2  
> AWT peer built.  Currently, I can't execute gcj-built AWT code  
> natively or using gij.  However, Sun's JVM will execute the same gcj- 
> built AWT code fine.  I understand that gcj's AWT is under  
> development but I would like to be able to help test.

Some other items of interest: gnome-java and gcjwebplugin (which I see  
has an @redhat.com contributing to it).  Any chance these will make it  
into Fedora Rawhide soon?

I know that Red Hat has been working on  Java-related projects a lot,  
but there is little talk of it on the Fedora side of things.  Perhaps  
we could get a Java project listed at  
http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/?

--
Mike