Nathan Beyer wrote: > I've checked in my proposal for the java.util.concurrent module at > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/harmony/enhanced/classlib/trunk/s > andbox/juc-proposal.
You didn't just check in a proposal, you also checked in Doug Lea et al's code. Nobody should commit other people's code into svn this way. Was there a reason to create .../classlib/trunk/sandbox? wouldn't .../classlib/sandbox make more sense? > The README gives a high level overview of the content. I've generated some > documentation and published it here for easier browsing: > http://people.apache.org/~ndbeyer/concurrent/project-reports.html. > > Design - > > Most of the code is straight from Doug Lea and the JSR group. The only piece > I've added are the service interfaces that the VM must implement and I've > uplifted the original code, where necessary to utilize these VM service > interfaces. I was hoping that we would be able to discuss these first, so it seems you have already concluded these questions independently; but I'll ask them anyway to hear the rationale: What interfaces to the VM, or internal APIs to the class library code, does the concurrent code currently use? Do you think it makes sense to modify the concurrent code, or create an adapter that maps onto the Harmony VM / internal APIs? I see copying the code as a one-way operation. We can hope to track updates to the original code thoroughly, but I don't see any fixes made in Harmony making it back directly into Doug's repository. Is there a reason why we want to fork this code? I'd rather we worked with Doug (contributing directly to his project to make it more widely usable etc). > org.apache.harmony.concurrent.AtomicSupport [1] - The service interface for > 'java.util.concurrent.atomic' features such as CAS (compare and swap) and > volatile read/writes. These look like the right set of operations (without having gone through the list exhaustively). It would be good to move the AtomicSupport type into o.a.h.luni.platform so they can be used by other code (thinking reflect/objectIO etc.) without having to depend on all the concurrent utils. > org.apache.harmony.concurrent.LocksSupport [2] - The service interface for > 'java.util.concurrent.locks' support. This is similar to the > java.util.concurrent.locks.LockSupport contract. These are thread operations, perhaps just a misnomer. In LockSupport we need MonitorEnter and MonitorExit etc. <sidebar> would be good to round out the set with a type to invokeVirtual and friends too </sidebar> > These service interfaces would need to be implemented by a VM provider and > their implementations are registered using Service Provider configuration > files, as defined by the JAR specification [3]. The rationale for the design > of the support classes was to preserve as much of the original code as > possible, Do you mean by implementing the internal APIs that the concurrency code has on Sun's implementation? > so as to facilitate future maintenance and isolate the external > variability with well-defined service contracts. This SPI is a runtime framework, right? Do you really think that people will leave it until runtime to determine which provider they have for these methods? I doubt it -- they are so closely tied to the VM that they will not be pluggable at runtime. The VM/JIT will have to recognize these as special methods to make it anything like usable. > If you wan to see what source code changed, then extract the > 'concurrent.tar.gz' and compare the 'concurrent' folder from there to the > 'concurrent/src/main/java/java/util/concurrent' folder. hmm, thanks. > TODOs - > > * Implement the service interfaces by a VM!! > > * Setup the build scripts (trivial) - currently there's a 'pom.xml' that's > in the project, which can be used with Maven to run a build and generate > documentation (mvn package site). It was just quicker for me to do this > while I as hacking. > > * Consider and possible implement base/default service providers for win32 > and linux that VMs can use if they like. > > * Determine the best place to integrate the TCK source, which is also > available at Doug Lea's site. Are you serious? Why would we copy the TCK into Harmony too?! > * There are a LOT of changes, fixes and enhancements to the code at Doug > Lea's site; consider what code we should additional take. As I said above, I'd rather we work with Doug directly. I don't understand why we have to 'take ownership' of this code. > Let the discussions begin. Thanks for tackling this. Regards, Tim > -Nathan > > > > [1] > http://people.apache.org/~ndbeyer/concurrent/apidocs/org/apache/harmony/conc > urrent/AtomicSupport.html > > [2] > http://people.apache.org/~ndbeyer/concurrent/apidocs/org/apache/harmony/conc > urrent/LocksSupport.html > > [3] > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/jar/jar.html#Service%20Provider -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
