Re: issue using jfree chart with gnu classpath 0.98

Andrew,

Thanks for the remark, I didn't know I was checking against an old 
implementation of GNU Classpath! Thanks for the link to the new site!!

Dhaval, sorry that I gave you the wrong answer!! I hope your problem can 
be fixed soon!

Good luck,
Jan Pannecoeck

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/8/17 New User <[email protected]>:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm not part of the GNU Classpath team, but I'm using it and well, I have to
>>
>> say that I love it! At least for embedded systems it's great...
>>
>> But to answer your question, the method font.getName() isn't implemented
>> (yet) in GNU Classpath 0.98. You can check the coverage for GNU Classpath
>> against Java 1.5 on this site: http://www.kaffe.org/~stuart/japi/htmlout/h-
>> jdk15-classpath.html
>>
>> There you can find: 'method java.awt.Font.getName(): missing in classpath'.
>> What is a nice answer I guess... It don't means that you can't use the
>> java.awt.Font, but the method .getName isn't implemented yet.
>>
>> I hope this is a good answer for you question...
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Jan Pannecoeck
>>
>>
>>
>> Dhaval Yoganandi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>     
>> Hi GNU classpath team,
>>     
>>> I'm facing some problem using jfree chart with GNU classpath 0.98 and
>>> JamVM. I'm using a redhat based linux which is only console based linux
>>> and doesn't support desktop and graphics. while running following demo
>>> in my machine with JamVM I get NullPointerException but it is working
>>> fine with JDK 1.5 with update 14. While generating chart with jfree
>>> chart it is also giving the same error.
>>>
>>> import java.awt.Font;
>>> public class FontDemo{
>>>       public static void main(String args[]){
>>>               Font f = new Font("SansSerif", Font.BOLD, 18);
>>>               System.out.println(f.getName());
>>>       }
>>> }
>>>
>>> OUTPUT:
>>> /bin/jamvm/bin/jamvm -cp . FontDemo      Exception in thread "main"
>>> java.lang.NullPointerException
>>>  at java.awt.Font.getName(Font.java:427)
>>>  at FontDemo.main(FontDemo.java:5)
>>>
>>> can you shed some more light on this issue ?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>>
>>> Dhaval Yoganandi,
>>> Jr. Software Engineer,
>>> Elitecore Technologies Ltd.
>>> Cyberoam.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Jan,
>
> Thanks for the positive comments.  However, the link you refer to is
> very outdated (2007).  If you check:
>
> http://builder.classpath.org/japi/jdk15-classpath.html
>
> you will find results against the current version of GNU Classpath,
> rebuilt several times daily.
> Links to this are available on the GNU Classpath homepage:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath
>
> getName() is implemented, that's why it throws a NullPointerException
> rather than not compiling.  Dhaval, please file this as a bug at
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla
>