Bug#459281: libjfreechart-java does not work with free JVMs

[Vincent Fourmond]

Package: libjfreechart-java
Version: 1.0.9-1
Severity: serious

  Hello,

  Unfortunately, unlike what is said in the changelog,
libjfreechart-java does not work with free JVM available. As I proof,
I joined a test case, TestJFreeChart.java. I compiled it with gcj:

/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/javac -classpath /usr/share/java/jfreechart.jar:/usr/share/java/jcommon.jar TestJFreeChart.java

  I run it with different runtimes using commands in the spirit of:

/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/java -classpath /usr/share/java/jcommon.jar:/usr/share/java/jfreechart.jar:. TestJFreeChart

  The runtimes never complain about anything going
wrong. Unfortunately, when I look at the test.png files produced with
free runtimes (cacao, gcj-compat, kaffe), the PNG files are empty,
while they do display nice charts for the two runs with sun's jre.

  It seems libjfreechart-java will probably have to go back to
contrib, as this bug is rather serious - if not grave (it simply
cannot run properly in main).

  Sorry to bring bad news...

  	Vincent

PS: I unfortunately don't have a single idea about what is causing
this problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libjfreechart-java depends on:
ii  gij-4.2 [java2-runtime]    4.2.2-3       The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  java-gcj-compat            1.0.77-2      Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii  libjcommon-java            1.0.10.dfsg-1 General Purpose library for Java
ii  sun-java5-jre [java2-runti 1.5.0-13-1    Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (
ii  sun-java6-jre [java2-runti 6-03-2        Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (

libjfreechart-java recommends no packages.

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