These 4 classes will not affect the behavior of harmony. It's high time that we removed them? ;-)
I have sent a mail to ICU mailing list to ask for their opinions. On 12/27/06, Zakharov, Vasily M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wonder how complex a task could adding these classes be? They're not interfaces or fully-abstracts, they do some actual conversion, as one may guess from these links: http://icu.sourceforge.net/apiref/icu4jni/com/ibm/icu4jni/converters/Byt eToCharConverterICU.html http://icu.sourceforge.net/apiref/icu4jni/com/ibm/icu4jni/converters/Cha rToByteConverterICU.html From the other point of view, Harmony never had these classes, and was still able to run Eclipse and whatever else, so probably they're not so much needed. Can we ask ICU guys what those classes could be really needed for? And by the way, they're Deprecated. Probably we could add stubs or something like that to suncompat, that would throw new UnsupportedOperationException("sun.io.ByteToCharConverter is deprecated and not supported") on each method call? That's not much pain and if someone ever needs them, it's anyway better than NoClassDefFoundError, isn't it? Vasily -----Original Message----- From: Paulex Yang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 4:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [jira] Created: (HARMONY-2862) [classlib][suncompat] ICU references sun.io classes that are absent Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > On Dec 26, 2006, at 8:12 PM, Paulex Yang wrote: > >> Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: >>> ROTFL >>> >>> Who makes this library? IBM? :) >>> >>> I think we need to add these classes to our suncompat package... >>> >>> geir >>> >>> >>> On Dec 25, 2006, at 8:20 PM, Zakharov, Vasily M wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I wonder what must we do to this issue. >>>> Any opinions? >> AFAIK, these four classes in ICU4JNI are not used by Harmony's >> nio_char module, whatever directly or indirectly(i.e., you can remove >> these classes from ICU4JNI without affecting Harmony functionality), >> and nio_char should be the only module which refers to ICU4JNI, so I >> suppose they are not needed to be loaded? > > What if a users wanted to use this package on Harmony? I've no objection to add sun.io.CharToByteConverter to suncompat, because I guess this is one of the most used Sun JDK implementation classes, but I think we may have other options to deal with this ICU4JNI issue, for example, remove these four classes from our build if legal, ICU4JNI is provided only in source codes, so we need to build it into a binary jar ourselves anyway. > > geir > >>>> >>>> Vasily >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Vasily Zakharov (JIRA) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 7:54 PM >>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> Subject: [jira] Created: (HARMONY-2862) [classlib][suncompat] ICU >>>> references sun.io classes that are absent >>>> >>>> [classlib][suncompat] ICU references sun.io classes that are absent >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> Key: HARMONY-2862 >>>> URL: >>>> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-2862 >>>> Project: Harmony >>>> Issue Type: Bug >>>> Components: Classlib >>>> Reporter: Vasily Zakharov >>>> Priority: Minor >>>> >>>> >>>> DRLVM bootclasspath contains icu4jni-3.4.jar, that contains 4 classes >>>> that can't be loaded. These classes are: >>>> >>>> com.ibm.icu4jni.converters.ByteToCharConverterICU extends >>>> sun.io.ByteToCharConverter >>>> com.ibm.icu4jni.converters.ByteToCharGB18030 extends >>>> ByteToCharConverterICU >>>> com.ibm.icu4jni.converters.CharToByteConverterICU extends >>>> sun.io.CharToByteConverter >>>> com.ibm.icu4jni.converters.CharToByteGB18030 extends >>>> CharToByteConverterICU >>>> >>>> These classes can't be loaded because they extend classes from sun.io >>>> package that are not available in Harmony classlib. >>>> >>>> There're two ways to resolve this issue: >>>> >>>> 1. Create stubs for sun.io.ByteToCharConverterICU and >>>> sun.io.CharToByteConverter in suncompat module. >>>> >>>> 2. Consider the four classes mentioned above non-needed for Harmony >>>> operation and close this issue as Won't Fix. >>>> >>>> >>>> --This message is automatically generated by JIRA. >>>> - >>>> If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the >>>> administrators: >>>> http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa >>>> - >>>> For more information on JIRA, see: >>>> http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> --Paulex Yang >> China Software Development Lab >> IBM >> >> > > -- Paulex Yang China Software Development Lab IBM
-- Tony Wu China Software Development Lab, IBM
