Among the more funky things I spotted recently seems to be a SummerOfCode project that allows nice things from the Autotools school of thought, something that has been discussed recently on the #classpath IRC channel in light of making it easier to hack on GNU Classpath using Eclipse.

The feature list reads really nice. Now that Eclipse 3.1 works nicely out of the box on Kaffe OpenVM's CVS head, thanks to tromey's assistance in hunting down shared library name mapping issues in class loaders (don't ask ;), I'll give it a try, the new CDT release and the Eclipse TPTP tools to see how well the JVMPI interface in Kaffe works with that. There are a few performance issues that I'd like to track down in Kaffe.

I've thrown a GNU Classpath build at Eclipse on Kaffe last night, and it worked fine, though not blazing fast. I've also thrown FindBugs on GNU Classpath in Eclipse on Kaffe, and that held up nicely as well.

I think the current CVS head is shaping up nicely for a release. A few more things need to be done, like merging in ASM, Antlr, fixing the majority of compiler warnings and Debian bugs, and it should be ready to roll.