Would be good to get Japitools reports going on the Harmony codebase too. Regards, Tim
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > > > zoe slattery wrote: >> I've tried to post this a couple of times from another mail account - >> but it seems to go into a black hole - apologies if another two copies >> turn up later :-( >> >> I had some thoughts about running applications using Harmony classes. >> Rather than just getting various applications and trying them with >> Harmony I've been trying to see what classes they need. >> >> For example, I downloaded and installed Derby then ran this: >> >> java –verbose:class org.apache.derby.drda.NetworkServerControl start > >> dbc.txt >> >> This generates a file (dbc.txt) showing all of the classes that get >> loaded when Derby starts up. The format of the output is something >> like this: >> >> ... >> class load: java/io/BufferedOutputStream >> class load: java/io/BufferedReader >> class load: java/io/BufferedWriter >> class load: java/io/ByteArrayInputStream >> class load: java/io/ByteArrayOutputStream >> class load: java/io/CharConversionException >> class load: java/io/DataInput >> class load: java/io/DataInputStream >> ... >> >> using an IBM JRE - the format would likely be different using another >> JRE. I ran a few more similar things to look at what classes get >> loaded when you create tables, add rows etc. and then cat'd the class >> load output into a single file. A more extensive test could be run by >> using Derby unit tests. >> >> I wrote a small perl script that extracts the names of all of the java >> classes and then compares these against the API spec to generate a >> final list of API classes that are used by an application. I'd be >> happy to supply the perl, although it needs a bit of tidying up. > > This is cool. > >> >> The next step would be to check how many of these exist in SVN already >> - and maybe highlight the areas that we are missing? > > Yes! > >> So far, the only >> way I have found to get a list of files that exist in SVN is using >> something like "svn list $repos_path -R", if anyone knows of a better >> (faster) way I'd be happy to hear it. > > Try to find a way to do it on a local checkout. We don't want to be > banging the SVN repo like this. (We've been having problems lately w/ > people walking through the SVN repo, file after file, version after > version, via the viewCVS interface. Not a good use of resources. > > This would be cool - I'd love to post these on the website, to let > people know what they could do to help get their favorite app up and going. > > I wonder too if this could be combined with Gump somehow, so we can > automatically test a large swatch of the "popular java app" world. > > geir > >> >> Thoughts? >> >> -- >> Zoe Slattery >> IBM >> >> > -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK.
