On Saturday 10 January 2004 06:00, C. Brian Jones wrote: > All, > > I've been working a little lately on some tools I once added to japi for > serialization compatibility testing. I'm pretty close to having > something useful, just wondering if anyone is interested in using these > for checking compatibility?
Yes. :) > Here's the list of the files that are the > same when compared to Sun's JDK 1.4.1 for Kaffe 1.1.3. These .ser files > are object serializations. I've omitted the things that are missing in > Kaffe or exist in Kaffe but not the JDK. The list of classes the tool > attempted to serialize is based on Java 1.4 documented serializable > classes. I'm looking forward to adding a tool to attempt to read > objects written by Sun's JDK, from version 1.1 through 1.4 into the > appropriate object type. Eventually I'll be able to combine these > building block type tools to comprehensively state serialization > compatibility for a JVM to Sun's JDK. I'll also have fun checking Sun. > > :) > > I've thought about trying to add this to Mauve. Thoughts? New module? This would be a Good Thing. Wonka's test suite contains some tests which were originally written for JUnit - you can find them in Wonka CVS under too/mauve/somewhere, or I could parcel them up and mail them to you; you might find some ideas you can use. > [...] -- Chris Gray /k/ Embedded Java Solutions Embedded & Mobile Java, OSGi http://www.kiffer.be/k/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] +32 477 599 703 _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath