grr, thanks for finding that out Daniel. I think we need to speak to Doug to find out the best starting point for Harmony's j.u.concurrent impl.
Regards, Tim Daniel Gandara wrote: > I found that j.u.c backport is based -in part- on sources from the > JCP JSR 166 CVS repository so the source code is somehow under > JRL/JDL and that -I believe- makes the code unacceptable for > Harmony. > > Daniel > > >> Daniel Gandara wrote: >> What about the j.u.c backport to 1.4 >> (http://dcl.mathcs.emory.edu/util/backport-util-concurrent/index.php) >> it may be a good starting point, on their page they say: >> >> "The code can be used for any purpose, modified, and redistributed >> without acknowledgment. No warranty is provided, either express or >> implied. >> Note: versions prior to 2.1 had dependencies on proprietary code. >> As of 2.1, any such dependencies have been removed." >> >> what do you think? >> >> >> >> Daniel >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Daniel Gandara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wed Mar 08 12:26:18 2006 >> To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: Re: ITC's Contribution >> >>>> Tim Ellison wrote: >>>> i.e. have you tried running it with the original code (EDU.oswego.cs.dl) >>>> from Doug's website or only the concurrent utils in 5.0 (JSR166)? >>>> >>> Daniel Gandara wrote: >>> we have only tried with the concurrent utils in 5.0, but we will try with >>> Doug's and see how it behaves, I'll let you know. >> As promised, we've checked EDU.oswego.cs.dl.util.concurrent package ( >> http://g.oswego.edu/dl/classes/EDU/oswego/cs/dl/util/concurrent/intro.html) >> and while it works beautifully, it seems to not be compliant with the specs >> for >> java.util.concurrent (e.g. it is missing some pieces, such as >> ThreadPoolExecutor, >> etc). Therefore, I am hesitant of adapting our harmony-compliant package to >> it, >> as it may not be acceptable by Harmony once we are done. What do you think? >> >> As stated above, we've checked with JSR166 >> (http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/concurrency-interest/index.html ) >> and we are ok with it, since it complies with the spec. However, I am not >> sure >> we can use this as part of Harmony, can we? >> >> Daniel >> >> -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK.
