On Sep 21, 2005, at 7:55 PM, Elford, Chris L wrote:
Hi all,
JVMTI is on track to replace the older JVMPI and JVMDI interfaces.
J2SE
5 supports JVMTI and JVMPI/JVMDI but future followons to J2SE are
expected to remove support for the older interfaces. Tools vendors
seem
to be in the process of transitioning to the JVMTI interface. It does
not really makes sense to invest too much effort in the Harmony
project
supporting the JVMPI interface. It would be much more effective to
invest the effort making the JVMTI implementation more complete so
that
it includes more of the optional functionality of JVMTI.
I suggest that we concentrate our debug/tools interface work in
Harmony
to making JVMTI work really well and let JVMPI and JVMDI fall away.
My knowledge of specific implementation notwithstanding :) I think it
makes sense to prioritize so in the event timing works out that we
decide to just jump ahead to J2SE 6 rather than implement J2SE 5, we
can ignore them (assuming they are dropped.)
However, if we do J2SE 5, as is the current goal, we would have to
implement them, right?
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