As I was cleaning out my office, I ran across some books. I got the Be Developers Guide in 2001 off a clearance rack at a Media Play store in Pittsburgh. I was given the Advanced Topics and Release 3 user guide at WalterCon 2004. Thanks Deej! I enjoyed them. The BeOS Bible is from [...]

This has been a long time coming, and it’s finally a reality. We have a page and a mailing list! We’re the first port of the OpenJDK to a new platform since the inception of the OpenJDK porters group. We’re also the first official OpenJDK project to come out of the porters group. We’re breaking [...]

So it begins. And with a new, stronger start. The JDK 1.4.2 port to BeOS R5 is dead. It has been for some time (over two years now) and I’m not too saddened by that. It died for a few reasons, the convenient excuse was that real life got busy. Sadly that’s not the whole [...]

So I tried to run the last build I made of JRE 1.4.2 for BeOS R5 on a nightly build of Haiku tonight. It failed to resolve the symbol set_signal_stack(). Apparently, we’re missing that one in the kernel. What a shame. I’ll have to poke Axel, file a bug, and see if we can get [...]