Re: Eclipse on gcj

["fernando at lozano dot eti dot br" <fernando at lozano dot eti dot br>]

Hi there,

> On a side note, is anyone sending trap-smashing talk proposals to next
> year's JavaOne?

I think everyone should. Most developers are not aware of the possibilities and advantages of a foss
JVM, although they gladly use Ant, Eclipse and other foss tools and frameworks.

Just remember to describe your proposal in terms the sponsors (Sun, Oracle, etc) woudl accept. So a
session named "Escaping the Java Trap" or having this sentence on the description would have few
chances of being accepted, but if you instead focus on the advances of Kaffe, classpath and etc you
may be accepted.

Other ideas wold be to focus on the challenge of developing a compliant open source software Java
implementation (sadly I'd avise againt using "free software java implementation") or the chalenges
of runing Java on "non-standard" platforms, like ARM-embebed devices or Linux under PowerPC. Maybe
specifics of GCJ4 native compilation would be accepted too. The idea is not to present yourselves as
people who would fragment the Java space, but as people adding new tools for the standard Java
platform

I got a BOF accepted this year about packaging and integrating to the linux desktop, wgich was
essentially a BOF about JPackage and FreeDesktop.org application launchers and mime types. Although
I talked about Sun JVM and Swing apps, I also presented the pros and cons of many foss JVMs, SWT and
JavaGnome.

If you need help shaping your proposals, myself and the SouJava people will be glad to help.


[]s. Fernando Lozano