On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Stephen Adkins wrote: > Brian, if you have a more detailed version of this doc, > let us know. (i.e. did you squash deep Java package > names down to shallow Perl package names, etc.)
i don't have anything more detailed, sorry. however, if you have particular questions, i'm sure they'll jog my memory. in re package names, i didn't squash them at all. i just stripped the leading component. so javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet became Servlet::Http::HttpServlet. for some reason java package names feel much less cumbersome than those in perl. perhaps because you need to package qualify class names in java much less often. one request i have is for folks who have experience with both the java servlet api and perl to comment on the conversion. you'll see from the conversion details document that i/o, locales, character encodings and conversions, and threads are all open issues. i will send a follow up message with more detail.
