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News [ 18-02-2005 ]
Escape the Java Trap! - GNU Classpath Hacker Room

Schedule for talks and discussions on Saturday and Sunday is now up!

Escape the Java Trap! [1] - GNU Classpath Hacker Room

Fosdem, Saturday/Sunday 26/27 February 2005, Brussels

Saturday 14:00 - 17:00 - "Building Bridges"

Reaching out to other communities. How can GNU Classpath, GCC/GCJ and Kaffe hackers learn from and work together with others?

14:00 - 14:50 Jeroen Frijters IKVM.NET -- Motivation and Architecture.

15:00 - 15:50 Leo Simons Apache Gump -- Continuous integration on steroids

16:00 - 16:50 Jeffrey Morgan Liberation through Binding! -- Using java-gnome to build desktop applications.

17:00 - 17:30 Christian Thalinger CACAO -- From the fastest JIT to a JVM

Sunday 10:00 - 13:00 - "Demo Time!'

Public presentations and overviews of the current state of the GNU Classpath library , GCC/GCJ(X) compiler and Kaffe runtime.

10:00 - 10:50 Thomas Fitzsimmons Free AWT and Swing -- The GUI parts of GNU Classpath.

11:00 - 11:50 Tom Tromey GCJX -- Writing a new GCC front end.

12:00 - 12:50 Dalibor Topic Kaffe -- Past, Present and Future.

Extra (13h15 - 13h30) GCJ & Native Eclipse

Bryce McKinlay -- Lightning Talk. GCJ and the Eclipse IDE: desktop application development with Java-gnome.

Sunday 14:00 - 17:00 - "The Future"

Technical Planning Session

This 3 hour session for hackers will consist of:

  • A general part explaining what is needed.
  • Splitting up in groups to discuss specific topics to solve the problems and make development plans.
  • A short present by each group about the ideas discussed.

Please add ideas and suggestions to the WIKI: http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/Fosdem2005

Full schedule and abstracts at http://www.fosdem.org/2005/index/dev_room_classpath/schedule


[1] From "Free But Shackled - The Java Trap" http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html

News [ 18-02-2005 ]
Complete schedule, speakers and abstracts online

All of the abstracts for the talks are now online at:
http://www.fosdem.org/2005/index/dev_room_classpath/schedule.

Abstracts for:

Jeroen Frijters - IKVM.NET -- Motivation & Architecture
Thomas Fitzsimmons - Free AWT and Swing -- The GUI parts of GNU Classpath
Tom Tromey - GCJX -- Writing a new GCC front end
Leo Simons - Apache Gump -- Continuous integration on steroids
Jeffrey Morgan - Liberation through Binding! -- Using java-gnome to build desktop applications
Christian Thalinger - CACAO -- From the fastest JIT to a JVM
Dalibor Topic - Kaffe -- Past, Present and Future

And descriptions of the extra Lightning Talk by Bryce McKinlay and "The Future" Technical Planning Session can now be found at: http://www.fosdem.org/2005/index/dev_room_classpath/schedule.

News [ 18-02-2005 ]
The Future Technical Session Wiki Open

Please share your ideas about the technical session on the Wiki at http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/Fosdem2005.

And please add your name to the participants list!

News [ 24-02-2005 ]
Meeting on Friday night, Saturday and Sunday

Friday evening some of us will meet in Cafe de BXL on the Grand Place. We will be there at least from 18:00 till 20:00. Saturday and Sunday you can find us in room AW1.105.

For more information and maps please see http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/Fosdem2005.







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