japitools: Java API compatibility testing tools; including comparison results for classpath, libgcj, harmony, jnode and kaffe.
à propos free java: lately, i tried to compile rhinola again on my ubook and got the following output:
buntekuh:~/Desktop/rhinola$ ant gcjlib
Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-4.0-1.4.2.0/lib/tools.jar
Buildfile: build.xml
init:
compile: [javac] Compiling 7 source files to ~/Desktop/rhinola/classes
BUILD FAILED ~/Desktop/rhinola/build.xml:50: Error running gcj compiler
Total time: 9 seconds
obviously, rhinola still needs some of sun's (still) proprietary java stuff – which i have had installed the last time when everything went so smoothly.
unfortunately, copying tools.jar from another jdk installation to the aforementioned directory does not alter the result (except for the "unable to locate" message). wtf?
anyway, the main question is: did i get the promising "gnu-compiled" buzz-phrase wrong or is there a free tools.jar somewhere that makes the magic happen?