It should be easy to add java.rmi.Remote to the JAR file of the application. Unless there is some sort of restriction on adding java.* classes. Lucene is supposed to operate on JDK1.4? Moving to JDK1.5?
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Came across: > http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fgroup%2Fandroid-developers%2Fbrowse_thread%2Fthread%2F601329551a87e601%2Fcd0919ce891b4a26%3Flnk%3Dgst%26q%3Dlucene&ei=zNzcSPHCF4yI1ga61YiTBA&usg=AFQjCNECrBnNPBkxI4I0EbIzI-mNp3S4YA&sig2=4sDMmwa9Mrk38Nla_ULtOg > > The gist of it is, that on Android doesn't provide the RMI package. Thus, > Lucene core can't work on Android b/c of Searchable extending > java.rmi.Remote. > > This has always seemed a little weird to me. I'm no RMI expert, but > couldn't we drop the extension on Searchable, and add it to > RemoteSearchable, and then move RemoteSearchable and all the RMI stuff to a > separate contrib? This, in my view, would be consistent with keeping core, > core, since not many people, I think, even use the RMI stuff and it > certainly isn't required in most cases. > > I haven't looked into what would break in doing it, so it is just a > suggestion at this point. Seems like it could be "mostly" back-compatible, > though, since we would just be requiring someone to get the new JAR, unless > of course they implemented their own extension of Searchable that relied on > the Remote marker interface. > > Thoughts? > > -Grant > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
