[fedora-java] Re: JOnAS 4.3.3 on gcj: test results

[David Walluck]

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Andrew Haley wrote:

> I thought these had been purged.  If you are aware of any unfree
> software in Fedora, let me know.

There are some bootstrap issues with jonas (which I am sure you're aware
of):

* jonas needs jorm
* jorm needs medor
* medor needs medor-expression and jorm
* medor-expression needs jorm

You probably fixed this by at first including a binary-only
(non-free-compiled) jar.

I was able to find some minimal subset of the classes needed and include
them into the initial medor-expression and jorm packages. From here one
can rebuild without these bootstrap classes.

If anyone else is interested, specifically what I did was:

* build medor-expression with a small subset of jorm
* build jorm with some small subset of medor (I tried it the other way,
and realized after much pain that this wasn't the way to go)
* rebuild medor-expression
* build medor
* rebuild jorm
* build jonas (*)

(*) Now, there are a couple jars left in the jonas package.
Specifically, I found

externals/ishmael.jar
externals/tools/xbean-apache-1.0-DEV.jar

I guess that the xmlbeans 1.0.4 rpm from jpackage does not work?
Whatever this version of xbean is, it looks to have come from between
1.0.3 and 1.0.4. I would be surprised if neither of these worked. I
didn't try yet because I assumed there was a reason for keeping this.
But, the outlook for xbean looks good, assuming we can find out what
version it is. But I also checked the xmlbeans cvn and I am not sure you
can get date snapshots.

As for ishmael, I am not sure yet how to build this and it looks to
contain some non-free j2ee classes. The outlook for ishmael is not so
good. I couldn't even tell how to build it from my initial glance at it
(if it needs jonas, then that's another big problem).

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Sincerely,

David Walluck
<david at zarb.org>
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