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  • From: Sandy Mustard <sandy.mustard AT sdrc.com>
  • To: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Kaffe compatibility with XOM
  • Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:38:31 -0400


It seems like Kaffe has a problem running JUnit and your Junit tests
from this posting.

Does it run XOM?

Sandy Mustard

Elliotte Harold wrote:
>
> 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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