web patch: update projects page

[Anthony Green]

2000-04-27  Anthony Green  <green@cygnus.com>

	* projects.html: Update jar and benchmark projects.

Index: projects.html
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RCS file: /cvs/java/htdocs/projects.html,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 projects.html
--- projects.html	2000/04/23 15:58:48	1.6
+++ projects.html	2000/04/27 13:32:55
@@ -59,6 +59,36 @@
 <table border="0" cellpadding="4" width="95%">
 <tr bgcolor="#b0d0ff">
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+jar support
+ </th>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<br>
+
+We currently bundle libgcj class files as a zip file.  The <a
+href=" http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jar/ ">jar format</a> is
+the preferred archiving format, and we should switch to using it.  There
+is a <a href=" http://fastjar.sourceforge.net ">Free jar
+implementation</a> written in C that we should import into our tree (and then
+remove <tt>libgcj/zip</tt>).
+This is preferable to creating one written in java because it doesn't
+require java running on the host development system when building a
+cross compiler.  Once it has been imported, the following tasks remain:
+<ul>
+<li>finish java.util.jar
+<li>implement support in the compiler for reading compressed archives
+<li>modify gij to obey the <tt>main</tt> specification found in jar
+file manifests, so we can just run <tt>gij MyApp.jar</tt>.
+<li>modify gcj to obey the contraints layed out by the jar file manifest file.
+<li>modify our runtime to obey all of these same rules when loading from 
+jar files.
+</ul>
+<p>
+
+<br>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" width="95%">
+<tr bgcolor="#b0d0ff">
+ <th align="left">
 Plugin for Mozilla
  </th>
 </tr>
@@ -104,26 +134,6 @@
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-jar application
- </th>
-</tr>
-</table>
-<br>
-
-<a
-href=" http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jar/index.html ">jar</a>
-is a utility to bundle multiple files into a single archive file.  We
-need a Free implementation.  
-<p>
-Libgcj already provides some of the <a
-href=" http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libgcj/libjava/java/util/jar/?cvsroot=java ">necessary
-infrastructure</a>
-<p>
-
-<br>
-<table border="0" cellpadding="4" width="95%">
-<tr bgcolor="#b0d0ff">
- <th align="left">
 Benchmark infrastructure
  </th>
 </tr>
@@ -138,8 +148,10 @@
 <a href=" mailto:bryce@albatross.co.nz ">Bryce McKinlay</a> has put
 together a list of some <a
 href=" http://waitaki.otago.ac.nz/~bryce/gcj/ ">benchmarks that run on
-GCJ</a>.  Building some infrastructure around these would be
-incredibly useful.
+GCJ</a>.  IBM has also recently released a set of "micro benchmarks"
+called <a
+href=" http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jmocha/index.html ">jMocha</a>. Building
+some infrastructure around these would be incredibly useful.
 <p>
 
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Anthony Green                                                        Red Hat
                                                       Sunnyvale, California