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  • From: Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Cc: jim AT kaffe.org
  • Subject: [XOM-interest] Kaffe compatibility with XOM
  • Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:16:05 -0400

I spent a little time this afternoon playing with Kaffe 1.10, a clean room Java virtual machine published under the GPL. Mostly I wanted to see if it could run XOM. Sadly the answer seems to be no, it can't.
First off the bat, a couple of missing methods (addShutdownHook and removeShutdownHook) in java.lang.Runtime prevented the JUnit GUI testrunner from running. I tried running the textui for JUnit, and that ran.

Once I did that, there appeared to be a reflection bug that picked up a non-test-case as a test case, and thus reported an errorneouse failure. Most of the other tests passed. However, as I write this the EncodingTest is either stuck in an infinite loop or running very slowly.

I regret to report that Kaffe is not yet up to the task of running XOM, though it's tantalizingly close. :-(

--
Elliotte Rusty Harold





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