Sun's java is the "reference implementation" and thus is a valid spec
source.
--John Keiser
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wes Biggs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 1998 11:51 AM
> To: classpath
> Subject: Reverse engineering?
>
>
> Am I allowed to write Java code, run it on Sun's JDK, and use the
> generated output to give me a feel for how my implementation should
> work? e.g. the getZoneStrings() method of java.text.DateFormatSymbols
> returns a String[][], but nothing in the API says anything about the
> format of those arrays. Obviously, though, there's some kind of
> convention that they're expecting, e.g. it's an array with a pair of
> strings per time zone.
>
> Can I write a program that does something like:
>
> String[][] temp = dfs.getZoneStrings();
> for (int i=0; i<temp.length; i++) {
> for (int j=0; j<temp[i].length; j++) {
> System.out.println("["+i+","+j+"] = "+temp[i][j]);
> }
> }
>
> or does that go against the principles here?
>
> Wes
>
>
>
