Re: issue using jfree chart with gnu classpath 0.98

Hi,

I didn't know that its still under development. Thank you both Andrew 
and Jan Pannecoeck. You guys are doing wonderful job.

-- 
Thanks and Regards,

Dhaval Yoganandi,
Jr. Software Engineer,
Elitecore Technologies Ltd.
Cyberoam.



Jan Pannecoeck wrote:
> 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
>>   
>
>