Google summer of Code 2007

hai,
Obviusly we need support from all.Somegeek,Come on IRC channel.

Thanks
Tango

no problems Fabien. I will work for Jnode project in the summers and try to be in contact with the group

Fabien:
I've seen the list of orgs. It's a pity really:( But eveything is going on. Most people are interesting in Jnode first. In the those days, I'm busy in some major's research. I'll postpone some osgi works(And I will not join this year's soc). I've become interesting in Grub2 related works now. Because, I'm interesting to generate a minimal bootimage of jnode recently. But I've just guessed out the partial mechanics of bootimage generation. I hope to do some discusses with your veterans to reduce the time:)
Peter:
I'm busy in some phd work in those days. I'll contact with you soon. sorry for my lateness.

Jin

You can contact us on irc to be better know you and discuss about projects.

From my point of view, grub 2 will be the most usefull among what you want : that will open JNode to new platforms like PPC.

That's our irc :
server : irc.oftc.net
channel : #JNode.org

Fabien

my blog (in english and french)

The HTTP,FTP,RMI-IIOP,SNMP and many Open protocols we need to implement for making the networking facility for Jnode will be more applicable in the Networking domain.....is not it???

Tango devian

- improved font support
- device drivers for various hw: network card, video card, usb devices
- generic SVGA video driver
- javax.comm support, serial/paralel port
- write support for NTFS/ISO9660
- FAT formatter
- EXT2 FS review & extensions
- disk partitioning tool

Reagrds, Levente

That idea was submitted by surfeit.

The idea is to write SWT peers for JNode instead of relying on SWTOnSwing project (whose goal is to implement a SWT layer based on the Swing layer).

Doing that way (writing SWT peers that rely on JNode "native" interface) should give better performances but it's a hard task.
So, the required skills are :

• a good knowledge of SWT, SWT peers interface (mandatory)
• JNode graphic (maybe also keyboard & mouse but I am not sure) drivers interface (recommanded but you will get help from JNode community)

Fabien

my blog (in english and french)

Sometime ago, I submitted that task.

The goal is to have the original/unmodified jars from CHARVA and to write an adapter for JNode so that we can easily benefit of new versions of CHARVA.

Here is the identified steps :

• study CHARVA source code and its interface with native code
• think about the needed adapters (with console, mouse, keyboard, ...) for integration in JNode
• write the adapters

Important information : there is already an older (more than 2 years) version of CHARVA in JNode. The problem is that's a modified version and we don't know what has been modified from the original.

Fabien

my blog (in english and french)

I want to add some ideas too:

The profiling stuff millisecond started with could be an interessting project (millisecond you're a student? ). Something like: Add profiling support for execution time and allocation counter for _complete_ JNode.

Porting PearColator to JNode. This could be an interessting project too, especially there's much room for improving PearColator. But before someone picks that up we need to have a deeper look at PearColator first. I'm not sure if PearColator can be used without a working jikes opt compiler.

Very very hard tasks could be: Finish jikes opt integration and continue Isolation support in JNode. But for those one needs allready very good knowledge of JNode (and jikes). And as another (simple) project we could make a list of little commands that need to be implemented for SoC.

Until now, we are using using grub 1.

grub 2 can be found here.
It offers many things like multi-plateform support, graphical interface, modularity ...

Maybe there is also interesting stuff for JNode around their Multiboot protocol (look at grub2 home page)

Fabien

my blog (in english and french)

How adding more commands:
copy or cp
clear or cls
find
free
grep
less
ls
mkdir
more
mount
time
unmount

I realize that there may be other commands too that we would like, but these where just a few I could think of.

since almost or all sound card are compatible with sound blaster, it would be great to support sound blaster & compatible cards in JNode.

Fabien

my blog (in english and french)

Even if some people think it's too early to support 3D, why someone couldn't try to study the 3D support in JNode right now ?

Some know open GL-java mapping libraries :
- GL4Java (http://gl4java.sourceforge.net/)
- JGL ((http://graphics.im.ntu.edu.tw/~robin/jGL/)
- JOGL (https://jogl.dev.java.net/)

Of course the above libraries are high level libraries : the low level part like a driver for rendering open GL in JNode with the graphic card is still to be done.

That's not really 3D but a java2D implementation that use open GL for faster rendering : agile2d (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/agile2d/)

Fabien

my blog (in english and french)

JDistro (www.jdistro.com) is a desktop wrote in pure java that would be cool to have since it is complementary with JNode.

You can contact Guillaume Desnoix or gcollin for more informations about JDistro. There were some discussion about that on JNode web site.

Maybe that should be part of some Google SoC project for JDistro whose goal is to first make JDistro work with GNU Classpath (see here).

Fabien

my blog (in english and french)

Until now, JNode use its own plugin system based on the previous one from eclipse (now, eclipse use OSGi).

I think the 2 difficult parts are :
- the boot part of JNode that should setup the core of the OSGi framework
- the new plugin system should keep the same function as the current system

It would be better if we can use (completely or partially modified) and switch between the following existing OSGi implementations :

• oscar
• felix
• equinoxe (the eclipse implementation of OSGi)

here is some discussions about that subject :

• http://www.jnode.org/node/749
• http://www.jnode.org/node/733

Fabien

my blog (in english and french)

Integrate Hotspot into JNode. Wouldn't it be great to have a world class JIT that has been improved by full time developers for the last ten years?

Hello
I wish to work on one of the following projects as a SoC participant.

1 Write Support for NTFS/ISO9660
2 FAT formatter
3 EXT2 FS Extensions

I have a few ideas which i wish to discuss with a mentor.

I would like to be a student and get involved in the development ... I also have an idea for the SOC ... can I have some mentor, with whom I can discuss it ...

Thank you,
------------
Kulbir Saini,
Computer Science And Engineering,
IIIT Hyderabad.

Home-Page - http://students.iiit.ac.in/~kulbirsaini/

I'd like to do some works of jnode dev in SoC 2007: osgi, graphics driver, swt and windows/desktop(Basic Idea is to run Eclipse under jnode. If this done, jnode is ready for daily using). The beginning of coding is May 28, it is too long to make more jobs done. So, I just add a placeholder here:)
PS: Would some mentor like to dicuss something about these topics before SoC? IRC seem not very responsive, and I'm not always get into the IRC room.

I will (still) be a student this summer. Pending the exam schedule I can not totally promise I will have time for SoC but I sure am interested.

My current private JNode projects are:

- implementing cursors (with blurs and alpha blending)
- implementing VNC support

I am student and will be student until Summer 2007. I wanted to be involved in This OS design project. I have experience in OS and Kernel Designing. Experience in Device driver Writing. Let me know How can i contribute in this Open source project.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Tushar Dave

I can do a mentor too

I found that good article

Fabien

my blog (in english and french)

I can be a mentor too if needed and a suitable project will begin.
In any case I would like to have a chance to review the code before commits.
Regards, Levente

Hi,

I'd like to join the mentors team.

Andreas

If I can help, I could be a mentor too.