Re: eclipse 3.0M4 and java.nio

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 14:28, David P Grove wrote:
>         I tried to run eclipse 3.0M4 on Jikes RVM + classpath CVS head
> earlier this week.  It died almost immediately because
> java.nio.channels.FileChannelImpl.tryLock isn't implemented.
> 
>         Mark had mentioned a couple weeks back that he had run eclipse
> 3.0M4 on gij.  Is this a portion of the library where classpath is
> lagging behind gcj's libraries?

No file locking is not implemented in either library yet.
(Patches welcome!)

I cheated. When you define the system property
org.eclipse.core.runtime.ignoreLockFile=true
The Eclipse 3.0 startup code doesn't try to get a real lock.

Besides that issue I only remember two things missing from our library
regexp compile on a String and a unsupported format symbol
in java.text. But both were not really fatal, just annoying.

Hope to hear a success story about JRVM and Eclipse 3.0 soon!
(Kaffe is also able to run it now with a couple of small patches.)

Cheers,

Mark