Great idea! I'm trying to run Apache Geronimo (it's a J2EE 1.4 certified application server, http://geronimo.apache.org) on Harmony VM/classlib. Geronimo starts (mostly) successfully, but a number of important issues does exist. It seems that those issues could be good candidates to "App-Oriented Bug Reports" JIRAs.
I'm looking forward to see so powerful application as enterprise application server be able to run with Harmony. :) Thanks! Vasily Zakharov Intel Middleware Products Division -----Original Message----- From: Geir Magnusson Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 5:20 AM To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: [general] App-driven Improvement Now that we have a distribution of the VM + classlib in the JRE, we can start encouraging people to try real applications and tell us what's wrong. I'm guessing this will be an avalanche of useful information :) Obviously, the ideal is getting both tests and patches, but I think that's a lot to ask of casual users, and we will benefit greatly from casual users trying their applications in their environments on our JRE and reporting the results, even at a high level. So, I created a new category in JIRA called "App-Oriented Bug Reports" which is intended for people to tell us what went wrong with their apps, even if they can't quite identify why. I have some time on a plane tomorrow, so I'll add a section to the website detailing the idea and what we're looking for. I think we have a bit of this information in the Wiki, so I hope to 'harvest' that too. The idea is for users to report things to us, even if vague, and then encourage anyone in the community to take those and hunt down the problem in detail. As an example, I added HARMONY-956, which reports on what appears to be broken classpath/classloader behavior, exhibited when running ActiveMQ with the latest snapshot build. I've seen this with other apps too, not just ActiveMQ While I didn't chase it down, there should be enough information there for someone to go and try to figure it out, and report back the real exact problem (hopefully w/ a patch!) I hope this will create a "virtuous cycle" of ever increasing functionality as we fix important bugs reported by users with real applications, as well as greater project participation as the "app-oriented" bugs provide opportunities for contribution. Anyway, I'm hoping this will be useful for us... geir --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
