2010/5/25 sebb <[email protected]>
> On 25/05/2010, Jimmy,Jing Lv <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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;
> > 3. Choose Apache Hadoop as a real Application test, pass its common test
> on
> > these platforms for the first milestone.
> >
> > Wait for any kindly suggestions, opinions and comments.
>
> May suggest using some of the Commons components as test cases?
>
> For example, Commons Lang, Math, IO, Net?
>
> I know that Math has exposed bugs in Harmony in the past.
>
> These are relatively small codebases, so it should be a lot easier to
> debug any failures.
>
Hi,
That's good suggestions, let's discuss the modules selection openly
according to the application requirements.
A silly question, as I haven't touched Commons yet, what is the
advantage in Commons Lang, Math, IO/Net than J2SE components?
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Best Regards!
Jimmy, Jing Lv
China Software Development Lab, IBM
