To: mozilla-java@mozilla.org
From: ojw@iinet.net.au (Oliver White)
Subject: Jazilla Report: 18-Sept-98
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 15:38:29 GMT

Work on Jazilla - Mozilla in Java - is comming along slowly, but we
expect things to pick up signifigantly after recent events. Firstly
after a letter to the Java Lobby asking for "just a little plug",
we're now front page at http://www.javalobby.com thank you very much
Rick Ross. 
Secondly, the code to "Grendel", the Javagator mail client has been
released. A few issues have been raised in our adoption of this code,
for one it uses some native code, via JNI (Java Native Interfaces).
This has raised several issues pertaining to how we can create a pure
java mail client including file locking with UN*X. Feel free to
discuss this with us at netscape.public.mozilla.java

Grendel is the first source release from the Javagator project
codenamed "Xena". We hope that the rest of the source will be released
eventualy, but thankyou to our friends at netscape for working around
various licencing issues to deliver this code to us. There will
certainly be people working on the project, though it may not become
part of general mozilla.

Also in the news, we have announced a portal competition, to be put up
at portal.jazilla.org, so if you want to see your name in lights, get
together the best bunch of java/free source related links/book
reviews/whatever.

Al Sutton is also looking for someone to work with him to create a US
mirror of the CVS server, our source distribution machine. He is
willing to host whatever source you wish on his UK machine. If this
sounds like a good proposition, mail him at al@alsutton.com

Me (Oliver White) and Sandeep Hundal are busy working on a new look
for our web site, including all sorts of information on Jazilla and
Java(TM) itself.

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Jazilla Info -
   Web Site(current): http://www.jazilla.org
   Web Site(new):     http://www.angelfire.com/co/mputerz/
   News Group:        netscape.public.mozilla.java 
   JavaDocs:
http://www.sysabend.org/users/grail/doc/packages.html
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