Beans Binding and Swing Application Framework

Some bookmarks on articles I have to read about two Java JSR that will easy the Swing development:

1. Beans Binding
   • JSR 295: Beans Binding
   • Beans Binding on java.net
   • Scott Violet's Blog: Ease of Swing Development - Beans Binding
   • Shannon Hickey's Blog: Beans Binding 1.0 Released
   • JSR 295 Beans Binding Hits 1.0 on InfoQueue
   • Beans Binding (JSR 295) & Properties on JDK7 on JavaLobby
   • Stephen Colebourne's Weblog: Java 7 - Update on Properties
2. Swing Application Framework
   • JSR 296: Swing Application Framework
   • Swing Application Framework on java.net
   • An Introduction to the Swing Application Framework API (JSR-296) on java.net
   • Swing Application Framework (JSR 296) on JavaLobby
   • Article Using the Swing Application Framework (JSR 296) on java.sun.com

I see the world in ASCII...

Russian artists from Moscow presented in London the totally useless but somehow cool device - goggles that you can put on and feel yourself like a robot from a Terminator movie or like somebody else from “the cyberspace”. Read the blog.

My Music on MySpace.com

I uploaded some music content on http://myspace.com/arnogomez. The first track is a work in progress with David Borsu. We already have positive comments about it, don't hesitate to rate and comment.
The second track is a track I made with KRP Project back in 1999.
Both are unreleased yet.
I also find a 12 inches from KRP Project and me, released in 2000: all the tracks are on http://myspace.com/kroquisrecords

Naturally 7 live in Paris subway

It could be an ad for the Paris subway ;-) video (needs flash player).

NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

I've just signed the petition: http://www.noooxml.org/petition.

Argouml in Debian

My last upload of ArgoUML was 14 October 2005. Since that time, I tried to build ArgoUML from sources each time a new release was on out. Unfortunately, ArgoUML was using the MDR module from NetBeans and this module is not yet in Debian and this module uses the JMI api which is under the Sun's binary license. I first rewrote the API (just some interfaces) under the GNU/Classpathx project so I could package the api for Debian.

Now, after uploading new releases of libgef-java and libtoolbar-java, I'll have a look at mdr and also the mdrant task which is requiered to build ArgoUML.

It was the first package I worked for in Debian and as always been the more complicated to build!

Note that I already resolved a lot of bugs and marked them as pending as they are solved in the pkg-java's svn repo.

IcedTea available for testing in Debian

Thanks to doko and man-di, IcedTea the project to free OpenJDK completely is coming to Debian... Read the announce on debian-java

Java TCK available to OpenJDK implementations

A post from Andrew Haley that explain the position of most (IMHO) free software developers about the decision of Sun. Other GNU Classpath friends blog about it (you can read some on planet.classpath.org and welcome the move of Sun about the license of the TCK... but in the current state, gcj, kaffe, aka VM's not based on OpenJDK; or Harmony, aka VM's not under GLP, can't use the TCK.

See also the posts of Dalibor Topic and the one from
Roman Kenke. It's interesting to also read the response of Simon Phipps. It's another proof that Sun is really involved in the "Free Java" process. Even if some process could be faster, even if they have a very different way of working (Free software is often more "public"), they are doing a real good work.

I'd like to point the work of Gary Benson on porting OpenJDK to ppc! Being able to build OpenJDK on powerpc if very appreciated (at least by me! ;-)).

Java TCK available to OpenJDK implementations

A post from Andrew Haley that explain the position of most (IMHO) free software developers about the decision of Sun. Other GNU Classpath friends blog about it (you can read some on planet.classpath.org and welcome the move of Sun about the license of the TCK... but in the current state, gcj, kaffe, aka VM's not based on OpenJDK; or Harmony, aka VM's not under GLP, can't use the TCK.

See also the posts of Dalibor Topic and the one from
Roman Kenke. It's interesting to also read the response of Simon Phipps. It's another proof that Sun is really involved in the "Free Java" process. Even if some process could be faster, even if they have a very different way of working (Free software is often more "public"), they are doing a real good work.

I'd like to point the work of Gary Benson on porting OpenJDK to ppc! Being able to build OpenJDK on powerpc if very appreciated (at least by me! ;-)).

Upgrading to Drupal 5.2

It's sometime now that I can't log into my drupal website, I finally decided to upgrade my installation to Drupal 5.2. Everything went without problems so I'll be able to blog a little more.