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From:	 Juergen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de>
To:	 Java Linux Public <java-linux@java.blackdown.org>, <ipaq@handhelds.org>
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] J2SE Runtime v1.3.1 for Linux/ARM Release Candidate
Date:	 02 Jun 2001 08:15:10 +0200


The Blackdown Java-Linux Team is happy to announce the availability of
the release candidate 1 of Java2 SE v1.3.1 for Linux/ARM:

Please choose one of our FTP mirrors for downloading:
http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html

Besides the J2RE there's a second file: additional-ipaq-stuff.tar.gz
It contains libraries and other files which are required to run Java
but are not part of the standard familiar distribution (libXp.so,
libXm.so, libBrokenLocale.so, 'standard symbols l' font)

The unmodified J2RE needs about 18m, if you remove one of the two
included VMs (classic green & classic native threads VM) and files you
don't need (candidates are for instance soundbank.gm, i18n.jar
libJdbcOdbc.so, libpreemptive_close.so, libioser12.so, ...), you may
get it down to 12 or 13M.  You should be able to save even more space
by removing unneeded classes (e.g org.omg.*) from rt.jar.

* No SDK yet, I didn't have time to run the compiler testsuite yet
  (the test-run will take approximately two weeks)

* MouseEvent.isPopupTrigger() and JPopupMenu.isPopupTrigger() are
  somewhat useless on the iPAQ as they are bound to the right mouse
  button.  Any idea for a more sensible trigger?

* The default fonts are too large for the small display

* The default maximum heap size is 64m, you may want to reduce that
  with to a smaller value (e.g. -Xmx20m)

* Some stuff is terribly slow (e.g. HTML rendering).  If somebody
  feels like writing a JIT compiler or porting HotSpot to ARM let me
  know...

* No Mozilla plugin yet ;-)

* A small demo is available from http://blackdown.de/~jk/arm/IPAQDemo.jar


        Juergen

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