ANNOUNCE: Updated GCJ and SWT Article

Fri May 16 05:30:00 GMT 2003

> Readers will probably end up with way more problems with 3.2.
> Maybe Erik and Ã˜yvind can also chime in.

In my impression, 3.3 is way more stable than 3.2.
I used to have a list of issues. This list is now empty. As far as I'm
concerned, there are no showstoppers any longer in 3.3. Both mingw and
linux are doing great.
What's more, jdbc in 3.2 is incompatible with jdbc in 3.3. I don't know
what the guy was smoking, who extended the obligations embodied in the
jdbc interface contracts, but of course this has been copied faithfully
from the JDK into libgcj. I'm a bit worried about the future ... I
thought I got finally rid of Sun, but their lunacies seem to following
me wherever I go.
Otherwise, I can confirm that I've got several medium-size applications
running on 3.3 with clients on windows and xmlrpc servants on linux that
perform really well. Even the worries of uncollected garbage doesn't
creep up any longer (on linux).
We will attempt to release one of these applications ("showtimes") under
the GPL as a demonstration to show what the gcj compiler can do. It's
just an issue of documenting better and more extensively. We're also
planning way bigger applications to go live by the end of the year.
The application users are really happy.
As a developer I want to underline the quality of the compiler and the
team behind the compiler. You have done a brilliant job!