From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 370 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2013 09:53:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 360 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Jan 2013 09:53:16 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_GC X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:53:11 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r089rApH019362 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 8 Jan 2013 04:53:11 -0500 Received: from zebedee.pink (ovpn-113-113.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.113]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r089r9kJ003821; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 04:53:09 -0500 Message-ID: <50EBEC84.3030509@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:53:00 -0000 From: Andrew Haley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ernesto CC: java@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: About gcj present and future References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact java-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: java-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2013-01/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 On 01/08/2013 05:26 AM, Ernesto wrote: > I'm new on this mailing list and new to gcj and I find it fascinating. > I have several questions about gcj present and future: > > 1. Are there new developments on it? Support for Java 7 language new > features? (like automatic resource management or the new List<>() > diamond constructors?) GCJ doesn't have a Java source compiler, so it doesn't support any particular Java source features. It relies on some other Java -> bytecode compiler . GCJ is behind in terms of things like JSR 292, (Supporting Dynamically Typed Languages on the Java Platform). > 2. I installed it in a Xubuntu linux box and Swing works fine on it, > but in Mac OS X Swing simply does not work. Is any Mac related work on > it? I don't think there is. > 3. I read somewhere that gcj is in "active maintenance mode". Does > that mean that we can trust it will be available in next versions of > gcc? Or is there some plan to discontinue it? I want to start an app > on it and I would want to know it will be available for several years > now (CNI interface is a very amazing piece of technology). Well, yes. Good question. I'd love to restart active development of GCJ, but OpenJDK is free software and is way ahead in terms of features. GCJ has some advantages, but so far these haven't been enough to persuade people to work on it. If we don't do something soon it may be too late. Andrew.