Changes in 0.8.1 ---------------- Configuration stuff: Wonka will now read in and interpret the file $ETCDIR/device.config during startup in order to initialize serial ports, mouse etc. (provided Wonka was built with FICL=true). This should prove more convenient than editing wonka/src/driver/linux/comms.c ... AWT/Rudolph: Added an AWT_DEVICE called 'none'. This will compile the AWT, but you don't have any output (screen) or input (mouse/keyboard). Could be useful for testing without X or framebuffer or when porting Wonka to a different platform. Added keyboard support to most components, and beginnings of support for ps/2 mouse. Added support for GIF files: this is disabled by default. To enable GIF support, recompile Wonka with -sAWT_GIF_SUPPORT=true; note that in order to deply the resulting binary you may need a license from Unisys, who own a patent on the LZW compression scheme used in many GIF images. Added a simple taskbar and popup keyboard for use on handhelds. Extended AWT coverage, e.g. by addition of java.awt.Choice. java.sql/JDBC Added basic support. Unicode Added full support for getType() and other Java2 stuff. Security Much of the Java2 framework is now working (work continues in HEAD to read and apply policy files, etc.). We have as yet no javax.crypto implementation (that's fit to release), but you can try looking at the Cryptix stuff. Note that the security code has not yet been subjected to a full review or audit, so don't rely on it! VM internals Many changes aimed at reducing heap usage. General: Added some more README files - README.build, README.install, etc.. The alert reader will note the presence of directories "winnt", "o4e", etc.: these contain work-in-progress for porting Wonka to Win32 (and hopefully thus WinCE as well as NT) and eCos. If you are interested in participating in this work, join the developers' mailing list! See also the directory "roadmap", which contains a number of text files describing current development ideas.