After what seems like a marathon, I've just finished converting
remaining service implementations to the new com.sun.jini.start.Starter
interface, no longer is 'this' allowed to escape during construction.
The only remaining instances I'm aware of are the examples, I looked at
fixing them, but lets face it, we need better examples that demonstrate
best practises, any volunteers?
When I set out to refactor the qa suite, I never expected to find so
many issues, including those found in the main distribution. Findbugs
was helpful to identify issues, other issues revealed themselves as work
progressed.
I haven't of course fixed all the issues, but I can say that things are
better, don't forget most of this code was written prior to the current
Java Memory Model, so this is more or less just houskeeping.
I've got a little more testing to do, then it's time merge Sim's work
back in from trunk and branch for release.
To ensure we've got the highest quality build possible, we can allow
additional time for release candidate testing.
Thanks for all the support, I understand this hasn't been the easiest
process.
After the next release I recommend we focus more on code simplification
and correctness to really make our codebase solid, so it's easier to
understand and develop, if we're fortunate enough, wiser, more
experienced (not to mention modest) developers will be tempted to jump
in and do some really great work.
Regards,
Peter.
