New version of Kaffe has been released. Kaffe is a clean room implementation of the Java virtual machine, plus the associated class libraries needed to provide a Java runtime environment. 1.1.5 release sports improved AWT implementation, new garbage collector, internationalization support, new ports to FreeBSD on x86-64, Darwin on x86 and HP-UX on ia64 and much more.
Kaffe 1.1.5 “Development” released
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how about a plug in for FireFox?
can it work with IKVM?
i haven’t managed to deduce that from either the article or the homepage link!
Kaffe is coffee in norwegian, swedish (?) and danish (?.
Kaffe is coffee in norwegian, swedish (?) and danish (?.
That’s right.
It was specifically Swedish for coffee … It probably says somewhere on the website.
Since microsoft stopped making their own jvm, is there any alternative to the one sun provides on the windows platform?
(the one from IBM does not count as it only works on IBM machines)
Correct, in Danish coffee == kaffe.
Having some right now 🙂
Other than that Kaffe is a Java Virtual Machine implementation similar to Sun’s but this one’s open source.
interesting that kaffle got an anouncement when jamvm didn’t
http://jamvm.sourceforge.net/
gcjwebplugin can be used with kaffe to run java applets
Will it be able to run OOo’s java parts?
adurbe:
Try BEA JRockit JVM if you need one.
Also, IBM one works on any machine for me. Under linux, in case.
cheers for your help 🙂
The GIJ (from GCJ) is known to run OOo 2.0 parts. Expect FC4 to bring you OOo2 with java support enabled.
i’m glad that 0.0.o.2 will fully work independant of Java
In order to run Base’s bundled DB engine you will need Java. I think OOo2 will use GCJ.
anyone used jedit with kaffe ?
Could be very cool.
Trying to do non-trivial stuff with some of the other major office suites on the market can be…interesting.
This could well be a tipping point.
One wonders about Mono and OOo2.
I think OOo2 will use GCJ.
Oops. I meant to say I think Fedora 4 will use GCJ for OOo2.
Oops. I meant to say I think Fedora 4 will use GCJ for OOo2.
It should eventually. I tried it a couple of days and it didn’t work yet. They say it will work before the final FC4 release.
I like the fact that as Sun refuses to open Java people are stepping up to do it themselves. Open source is so cool. Sun really seems to be shooting themselves in the foot lately.
In German, it’s “Kaffee” (notice the double e at the end) – but its pretty close too. Yeah I wish we finally have a free, working JRE alternative to sun. For Ubuntu and the likes, it would be just too nice to have a working java environment out of the box. Then, WD (World Domination) could become possible!
While one the subject, in Polish coffee is “Kava” (at least phonetically… I’m illiterate)
BTW, how is Kaffe pronounced? I’m guessing like “cafe” in English.
Anybody know if this is moving at all in the direction of adding support for java 1.5? So far the only VM I know of that supports the new features is the Sun VM.
> BTW, how is Kaffe pronounced? I’m guessing like “cafe” in English.
Almost. In English “cafe” is pronounced with a short “f” and a long “e”, but in Swedish “kaffe” is pronounced with a long “f” and a short “e”.
It’s also the name of a Bulgarian Pop group with an entry in the Eurovision contest. 🙂
I used to LOATHE Kaffe because Mandrake used to seem to install it thinking it was a java virtual machine. Hah! They claimed it was, but it wouldn’t run common things like LimeWire so I ALWAYS had to uninstall it and install a real JVM. I hope it’s improved since then.
To install LimeWire you need a java sdk therefore more than a jre like Kaffe or any other jre.
Hello? Kaffe *is* SDK. At least it tries to be. It supports full JNI (new 1.2 spec) and other goodies, not only JRE.
There is “generics” branch in the Classpath CVS, which modifies Java class libraries to support new generics features, and recently JamVM successfully bootstrapped this branch. See:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2005-04/msg00005.html
OOo2 DB uses HSQLDB. There were some progresses running it on GCJ, but Kaffe 1.1.5 also runs it fine. There are some glitches (sizing problems) in GUI. See:
http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2005-April/102053.html
So it’s not only GCJ.