[kaffe] missing features needed for HSQLDB 1.7.2

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Hi Ito,

Ito Kazumitsu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to build the CVS version of hsqldb with kaffe
> and have found that the following JDK 1.4 features are missing:
> 
> javax.security.cert.*
> javax.net.ssl.*
> 
>    These are also missing in GNU Classpath.  I am afraid
>    it is a long way before we can use these.

javax.security.cert.* shouldn't be that hard to implement. It's 
basically two mostly abstract classes plus a handful of exceptions. And 
it's been deprecated from the start: "New applications should not use 
this package, but rather java.security.cert." ;)

javax.net.ssl.* is a different beast altogether. I'm afraid that there 
is no free software implementation of this API, but I hope the Gnu 
Crypto developers may know more. So I've cc:ed them in this mail.

> java.io.RandomAccessFile.getChannel()
> 
>    Kaffe has imported java.nio.channels.FileChannel and
>    java.nio.channels.FileChannelImpl from GNU Classpath.
>    But 
> 
>       - This FileChannelImpl needs some native methods.
> 
>       - This FileChannelImpl needs the file descriptor,
>         but kaffe's RandomAccessFile has only an invalid
>         file descriptor: FileDescriptor fd = new FileDescriptor() .

The missing NIO stuff is being worked on by Guilhem and Michael Koch 
from gcj.

cheers,
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