[Java-gnome-developer] Looking ahead

[Morgan, J. <Jef...@rp...>]

It has been over three months since our last release
of Java-GNOME.  We are now just a few days away
from our next release (0.6) and, as you will see, there
has been an enormous amount of work during this
time.  We have completely rewritten the parser/
code generator and have added support for numerous
new widgets from GDK, GTK and libgnomeui.  We have
also added support for most of the capabilities found
in libgnome.  Also, we finally have support for libglade.
The callback mechanism has also been enhanced.
We have also updated our documentation and added a 
few additional chapters to the tutorial.  We have also
included 47 examples to demonstrate many of the
capabilities found in the bindings.  We are very
proud of this release and look forward to your feedback.

As we move forward we hope to have more frequent
releases, perhaps every four to six weeks.  Our push 
will be in two areas; adding support for additional 
functionality/libraries and adding support for the new 
versions of GTK and GNOME.  Our priorities are going 
to be based on what we think is important and what 
feedback we get from developers using the bindings.

Here are my thoughts on where we will focus our
efforts over the next three short releases:

0.6.1 
Enhance support for GnomeCanvas and related classes.
Enhance support for GtkCTree and related classes.
Enhance support for GnomeMDI and related classes.

0.6.2
Add support for gnome-triggers.
Add support for gnome-popt
Add support for gnome-regex
Add support for gnome-print

0.6.3
CORBA interoperability with ORBit and the object
activation found in GNOME.

Of course we will continue to update our documentation
and examples with each release.

I would like to hear from the user community.  I am 
very interested in what features you would like to see
in Java-GNOME.  If you haven't done so already, I would
suggest getting the latest version from CVS and take
a look.  We welcome your feedback.

-Jeff