Re: DNS JNDI provider and java.nio

[Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>]

Pete Chown wrote:

>We are currently working on a Java project, and we may be making use of
>some of the features from JDK 1.4 when it is released.  We are very
>likely to use the DNS JNDI provider, and we may use java.nio as well.
>
>We need the ability to generate a stand-alone executable.  This means
>that we will probably have to implement at least DNS for gcj, if no one
>is doing it already.
>
>So I would like to ask two things.  Firstly is anyone working on either
>of these components at the present time?  Secondly if we do go ahead and
>implement them ourselves, would you like us to contribute the results
>back to gcj?
>

Hi Pete,

java.nio is being worked on and the SocketChannel and mapped I/O parts 
of it at least are up and running. We are awaiting paperwork from Ronald 
Veldema who has implemented much of this.

I'm not aware of anyone working on a DNS provider for JNDI. If you would 
like to contribute an implementation then we would certainly be 
interested in including it in libgcj. Note that we would require a 
copyright assignment form to be sent to the FSF (see 
http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html).

regards

Bryce.