• FreeSWTTestApps

This page lists free SWT applications that do not work yet with GNU Classpath. Use this list to pick a test application. Extend the list if you know program that would be good for testing purposes.

Index

(Should) Work

Azureus

• Last edit: 2006-09-25 rschuste
• Tested against Classpath version: unknown
• Description: GUI bittorrent client
• Problems: Signing of files is done through the proprietary interface given through tools.jar, mourns about a missing SSL provider.
• References:

  • http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

• How to build: See website. (I used the prebuilt package from the website)
• How to run: Downloaded version 2.5.0.0, unpacked tar.bz2, modified start script 'azureus' to use a free VM, ran the script.

Eclipse

• Last edit: 2005-11-29 mjw
• Tested against Classpath version: unknown
• Description: An editor and IDE environment.
• Problems: Should just work as is, no major problems known atm.
• References:

  • http://www.eclipse.org/

• How to build: Varous GNU/Linux distributions come with packages that can be more easily build then upstream sources. See also ClasspathShowcase for ways to create a native executable with gcj.

• How to run:  PATH=.:$PATH ./eclipse -vm yourfreevm -consoleLog -debug

RSSOwl

• Last edit: 2005-12-19 AndrewOvehrolt

• Tested against Classpath version: unknown
• Description: RSS Feed Reader
• Problems: not much AFAICT
• References:

  • http://www.rssowl.org

• How to build: See website. Also, see http://www.overholt.ca/rssowl/ and update and get into Debian and Fedora!

• How to run: See website.

Starts but doesn't really work yet

Bioclipse

• Last edit: 2005-11-22 EgonWillighagen

• Tested against Classpath version: unknown
• Description: Bio-/Chemoinformatics platform

• Problems: Jmol/JChemPaint plugins cannot be embedded:  Not implemented [need JDK 1.5 or greater] (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: sun/awt/X11/XEmbeddedFrame) 

  • This error message is misleading. It is the use of a proprietary sun.awt extension that is causing the problem. GNU Classpath does provide gnu.java.awt.EmbeddedWindow. See also the thread starting at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2005-11/msg00162.html

• References:

  • http://www.bioclipse.net/

  • Bioclipse on Classpath

• How to run:

  • bioclipse -vm /usr/bin/jamvm

Needs (lots of) Work

Not tested yet