Lang, That last link was very helpful. It looks like there are some things missing in the java.awt.geometry package. I'm fairly good with geometry, so I'll see if I can put together some patches that add the missing methods.
I'll read the wiki about contributing first. Thanks, The Sunburned Surveyor On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Lang Yang <yangl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the JAPI comparison result page [1] is also a good reference to see > if there anything need to be improved. It gives you a general idea of which > methods are missing or incorrect. > > Cheers, > Lang > > [1] http://people.apache.org/~hindessm/japi/ > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Sunburned Surveyor < > sunburned.surve...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for the help Daniel. I'll check out both of the links you sent >> and will see if I can figure out what to after that. >> >> Landon >> >> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Daniel Gong >> <daniel.gong.fu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > You can see what the community is doing and has already done in JIRA [1]. >> > >> > However, I think if you are very new to harmony, it's better that you >> take a >> > look at the harmony wiki [2] first so that you can get deeper >> understanding >> > of the project and the community, although I supposed that some of the >> TODO >> > information in wiki might be out of time. >> > >> > By the way, I'm sort of new bee to harmony too (I got to know the >> community >> > two years ago but has not got deep enough understanding of harmony and >> not >> > contributed much yet) and I'm also a pure java developer. We can more >> > discussion about contribution to harmony :) >> > >> > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY >> > [2] http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/ >> > >> > Best wishes >> > Daniel Gong >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Sunburned Surveyor < >> > sunburned.surve...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> Thanks Daniel and Regis for the information about Apache Harmony. >> >> >> >> I'll see if I can get the source code for the class library downloaded >> >> today and I will begin looking at the java.util modules. Is there a >> >> task list for the work that needs to be done in the class library or a >> >> person that supervises this work? >> >> >> >> Thank you again for the direction. >> >> >> >> SS >> >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Regis <xu.re...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > On 2010-11-16 4:46, Sunburned Surveyor wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> I'd like to know if any components of the Harmony Project are being >> >> >> implemented in Java. Are any of the class libraries that will ship >> >> >> with the JVM being written in Java? >> >> >> >> >> >> Is the main JVM implemented in C? >> >> >> >> >> >> I'm just trying to figure out where I might contribute code to the >> >> >> project as a Java programmer. My C programming skills are very crude. >> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> >> >> The Sunburned Surveyor >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > Harmony Project could divide to three part: VM, class library and jdk >> >> tools. >> >> > >> >> > VM is mainly implemented in C/C++ and a few Java code >> >> > The most of class library code is written in Java, and a few C code to >> >> deal >> >> > with file system and network etc. If you are a pure Java programmer, >> >> class >> >> > library is a good place to start, I suggest you to start from jndi, >> sql, >> >> > beans, java.util modules, they are pure Java code. >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > Best Regards, >> >> > Regis. >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >
