Thanks to the patient help of Andrew Haley, the other day I
finally got to see Jonas
running pre-compiled with gcj. Right now I have a couple of “special”
hacks in my tree to make this work, but today I found out that they
can be blessed as real patches in short order. I’m planning to demo
this at FOSDEM, assuming I finish installing all those packages on my
laptop.

Sometimes I wonder whether these huge J2EE servers are really all
that great. They seem to have an awful lot of code and, maybe, don’t
really provide all that much leverage. Still, it is another N million
lines of code that run on libgcj.

… and that is the point. We’re much better these days about
being able to run existing java code.

gcj

I can tell gcj is being used more, because the rate of new bug
reports has shot up quite steeply. I keep telling myself, this is
good, this is good, this is good…

gcjx

A couple weeks ago I did more gcjx hacking. Now it can mostly
generate Class objects; this means it is quite close to generating
working object code. This will probably get pushed off a bit due to
FOSDEM though.