Re: kawa verification questions / was: Best way to produce .exe files for Windows Kawa apps (fwd)

[Nic Ferrier <nferrier at tapsellferrier dot co dot uk>]

David Chase <chase@world.std.com> writes:

> At 06:56 PM 4/26/2002 +0100, Jocelyn Paine wrote: 
> >I'm probably the only person using Kawa for Windows, so perhaps shouldn't 
> >expect replies to this, but ... I've been developing a spreadsheet 
> >compiler/decompiler using Kawa, which is to run under Windows (all 
> >versions) so that its output can be loaded into Excel. I'm hoping soon to 
> >distribute demo copies at a conference, and wondering what the best way to 
> >package them is. 
>  
> I was doing a quick run of Kawa through our (NaturalBridge) 
> system to check compatibility, and discovered that kawa.jar 
> contains classfiles with invalid package names.  For example: 
>  
>   kawa-1.6.97.=build.gnu.text.PadFormat 
>  
> VM class and package names are subject to the same rules as the 
> Java language.  (If necessary, I'll find the exact sections 
> in the VM spec, but we've been down this road before, and know 
> it well). Is this really necessary? 
>  
> In addition, some of the classes in kawa.jar depend on 
> javax.servlet.*, and that seems not to be in the 1.3.1 
> distribution (it is available from other places -- the 
> Volano benchmark, for example).  However, the version 
> included with Volano (which is old) seems to be slightly 
> incompatible or out of rev.  It would be helpful if the 
> installation instructions specified where to get these 
> extra classes from, and what version. 

A free version of the servlet api is available from the GNU ClasspathX
project.

I haven't done a formal release yet but if you need it you can get it
from CVS, or contact me.


Nic Ferrier