Hi,
2010/5/25 Jim Yu <junjie0...@gmail.com> > 2010/5/25 Jimmy,Jing Lv <firep...@gmail.com> > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > We are very close to publish Harmony5 M14 and Harmony6 M2, what > great > > achievements since we created Harmony project! > > > > Now we may think about something different, satisfy more > requirements. > > Different application requirement need different JRE - it may differ very > > much in class-lib modules, providers, and VMs. Harmony select, say, a > > smaller, more flexible harmony runtime, may be a good candidate in such > > environments. We may not follow Oracle/Sun exactly in this runtime, allow > > more innovations, different modules selections, and different > > functionalities to meet different requirements. We may also call for more > > input from real Java applications, developers, especially hot open-source > > projects who are the potential customers of Harmony. > > > > We've already created an initial target in Harmony to build a Select > > binary. We remove some client-side related modules (like AWT, swing etc) > to > > reduce the size while keep the main functionality for server side > > applications. This is a startup, very far from the finial versions. > However > > I believe we can start some milestones with defined criterion like > standard > > Harmony. > > > > For the first milestone of Harmony-Select, I suggest we'd have > > following criterion: > > 1. build pass on both windows/linux platforms; > > 2. pass all Harmony unit testcases in the selected module on these > > platforms; > > > I agree we should pass them. But I suspect some of our tests will rely on > the > modules that are not in the scope of Harmony Select. I remember some tests > of beans module will call awt classes... > > Agreed, depart these testcases should be a pre-work for running testcases. > > > > 3. Choose Apache Hadoop as a real Application test, pass its common test on > > these platforms for the first milestone. > > > > Do you mean the startup tests for Hadoop Common? So far as I know, Hadoop > Common > can startup with one of three modes(standalone, pseudo-distributed and full > distributed). > In full distributed mode, we can involve many machines with different > platforms. So even > if Harmony Select can work well to support this mode with two machines, we > can't ensure > it can work well to support dozens of machines. > > I agree that Hadoop is a good server application for Harmony Select testing > and we can > try with it to see its capability. But seems it is not so easy to define > our > milestone criteria > based on it ;-) > > Yes I understand. We can refine the definition, e.g, pass 2 modes first as the target of milestone one. I suggest we still keep the criteria on real application so that to prove Harmony Select is a workable runtime ;) > > > > Wait for any kindly suggestions, opinions and comments. > > > > -- > > > > Best Regards! > > > > Jimmy, Jing Lv > > > > > > -- > Best Regards, > Jim, Jun Jie Yu > -- Best Regards! Jimmy, Jing Lv
