SableVM JVM running GNU Classpath CVS Out-of-the-box!

Soon after the recent release of SableVM 1.1.7 and yesterday's release of GNU Classpath 0.12 the SableVM Java Virtual Machine joined the group of Free JVMs capable of running directly with GNU Classpath CVS. This ability is mostly useful to developers of GNU Classpath who need to be able to run the latest CVS versions of it. The amount of special setup steps required has been kept to minimum and running this configuration later is trivial (see the original posting for instructions).

For regular users SableVM Java Virtual Machine comes with SableVM Classpath, which is a Java library derived from GNU Classpath code. The development branch of SableVM (staging) is kept up-to-date with respect to changes in GNU Classpath CVS (usually it is only a few days behind it. Actually to use this out-of-the-box feature it is required to fetch a precompiled gnucp-overrides.jar file which is built directly from SableVM Classpath and contains all the SableVM-specific files that are needed to run GNU Classpath. Altough it might not contain all files that are different between SableVM Classpath and GNU Classpath it should contain enough to allow for full useage of the code in GNU Classpath CVS. This file is autobuilt daily and available in the SableVM Snapshots Download area along with daily snapshots of SableVM Java Virtual machine and SableVM Classpath.

Continuing Hall Of Fame development

I looked slightly further on what stories involving SableVM are available on the Internet and added a few new ones to SableVM Java Virtual Machine Hall Of Fame. I think the next step will be to separate out the smiley stories and serious stories (altough all of them are serious, in some sense, some of them make me smile - this is how I would differentiate them). If you found something possibly worth putting there - don't hesitate, just add it to the SableVM Hall Of Fame Wiki page.

Support Free Java! Link to Us!

In a minute you can support the SableVM Project and thru that the Free Java movement. How? For example by putting a small graphical link to SableVM somewhere on your website or your blog. Some already did that for which we (as the SableVM Project) are thankful.

PS: Stay tuned for next updates :)