Hi Jimmy, Thank you for the information! I have a question here, jpathwatch is in GPL license, can harmony use that? I am not an legal expert, just curious.
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Jimmy,Jing Lv <firep...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Uwe, > > Welcome to Harmony community! It's very great news to us the Harmony > Project! Thank you very much in advance! > Yes Harmony currently have no Java7 branch yet but we can quickly > create one. With your code we have a big step towards jdk7 feature > completion. > To contribute to Harmony, you may have to fill ACQ and ICLA, I suppose > it won't be a big problem for you ( please refer: > http://harmony.apache.org/contribution_policy.html). And as a bulk > contribution, there is some process: > > 1. Will be donated via the project bug tracking system (JIRA) as a > contribution under the Apache License > 2. Will be accompanied by a Software Grant or CCLA which will be > registered with the Apache Incubator > 3. Will be registered in the Apache Harmony Bulk Contribution Repository > via a Bulk Contribution > Checklist<http://harmony.apache.org/bulk_contribution_checklist.html> > 4. Will be made by an Authorized Contributor to Harmony (defined above) > > Please mail if you have any questions. Looking forwards your > contribution. Let's cheer for this great time! > > 2011/2/26 <6yexqy8...@snkmail.com> > > > Hi there, > > > > I'm the author of jpathwatch (http://jpathwatch.wordpress.com), a > library > > that implements the JDK 7 WatchService API, allowing Java programs to > > monitor directories without polling. It natively supports Windows, Linux, > > FreeBSD and OSX, with fallbacks for unsupported platforms and > architectures. > > > > jpathwatch supports JDK 5 and up, however, with JDK 7 jpathwatch will > > become somewhat obsolete (since JDK 7 obviously implements it's own > > WatchService API, together with the other nio2 features). > > > > I'd be willing to donate jpathwatch to the Apache Harmony project. > > jpathwatch's API uses the same class interfaces and method signatures as > the > > JDK7 WatchService API, it's only the package names that are different, > which > > should be easy to change to fit into Harmony. > > jpathwatch uses native libraries (implementing very thin wrappers around > > native OS functions), these will have to be integrated as well, which I > > think should also be quite trivial. > > > > Please let me know if there's interest in such a donation. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Uwe > > > > P.S.: Hope you don't mind the sneakemail address, I'm spam paranoid ;) > > > > -- > > Best Regards! > > Jimmy, Jing Lv > -- Regards, Ray Chen
