Re: get help?

[Brian Jones]

Alex Lau <address@hidden> writes:

> I don't know what exactlly the status of classpath at this point
> I have some experience on i18n, some java2D, networking
> ( auto agent on mobile network to be exact ) is my major study
> when I was in school. I'm currently work on database ( jdbc - object
> mapping related work ) so I don't want to get into the non-compet
> issue so not jdbc :). What do you think?
> Alex

[I cc'd the list in case anyone else had some other answers to his
question.]

Okay, so avoiding the areas (jdbc) near your current work and any
source you've looked at from Sun there is a lot of work to do.  From
our homepage, http://www.classpath.org/ you can get to the Savannah
tasks list and also to an older set of status texts concerning various
packages.  

I think highest priority for the project is creating JDK 1.1
compatible tests in the Mauve framework (extending where necessary)
that will allow us to feel somewhat confident about the classes'
behaviour performing according to the specification or where the
specification is vague performing similarly to Sun's implementation.
When JDK 1.1 tests are written it would also be great to write Java 2
tests hopefully covering through JDK 1.4 or whatever new version is
available at that time.

>From the tests we should be able to spot most bugs in the current code
and apply appropriate fixes.

Development wise, there are new packages in Java 2 we don't have and
plenty of work to do on the AWT and Swing.  I don't know if anyone is
trying to implement Java2D at all.

Brian
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Brian Jones <address@hidden>