Re: Proposal: Wrap ICU4J to implement java.text.DecimalFormat enhancement of Java 5.0

2006-02-21 Thread Paulex Yang
Richard, I prefer to totally wrap ICU4J as long as Harmony depend on ICU4J. First, ICU4J is really good at these things while it is always evolving to follow new standard, and its license is friendly to user like Harmony, second, it should be not difficult to wrap it, and at last, we can get

Re: java.lang.String.replaceFirst from IBM VM throws NPE

2006-02-21 Thread Sergey Soldatov
But the way, how it affects the performance? java.lang.String is the most used class and even such simple operations will cause loading of full regex package. On 2/21/06, Oliver Deakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Alexey, > > Looking in there (these calls can also be seen if > the test is ru

Re: classlib ant clean is incomplete

2006-02-21 Thread Mark Hindess
On 21/02/06, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Hindess wrote: > > > > However, I think it's actually a good idea to do more to distinguish > > the files that come from the two zip files anyway - for instance so > > that people don't edit them and have changes clobbered by the next > >

[jira] Updated: (HARMONY-115) set appropriate svn:ignore properties

2006-02-21 Thread Mark Hindess (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-115?page=all ] Mark Hindess updated HARMONY-115: - Attachment: svn.ig.tar.gz Sadly patch doesn't support setting svn properties. The attached tar.gz contains svn.ignore files and trivial script to apply the

[jira] Created: (HARMONY-115) set appropriate svn:ignore properties

2006-02-21 Thread Mark Hindess (JIRA)
set appropriate svn:ignore properties - Key: HARMONY-115 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-115 Project: Harmony Type: Improvement Components: Classlib Reporter: Mark Hindess Priority: Trivial We should

Re: local test server (Was: Re: [jira] Commented: (HARMONY-71) java.net.URLConnection.setUseCaches throws unspecified IllegalAccessError)

2006-02-21 Thread Stepan Mishura
On 2/21/06, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stepan Mishura wrote: > > I glanced through a local server code from HARMONY-57 contribution > without > > looking into implementation details and ... this made me think. I catch > hold > > of the following: > > 1) The server contains some testi

Re: java.lang.String.replaceFirst from IBM VM throws NPE

2006-02-21 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Oliver Deakin wrote: Hi Alexey, ok, Ive recreated your problem using the latest snapshot and VME. Essentially the code at modules/kernel/src/main/java/java/lang/String.java is the same as that in the VME kernel.jar. Looking in there (these calls can also be seen if the test is run within a

Re: Bug-to-bug compatibility - first issue

2006-02-21 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
There's an interesting issue - we probably need to find out under what license the source found in sun bug reports is available under :) geir Arzhan Kinzhalin wrote: URLClassLoader can't load this class because searchURLs parameter in findClassImpl does not contain current directory and inclu

Re: Bug-to-bug compatibility - first issue

2006-02-21 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
I think this would be IBM's problem. Alexey Petrenko wrote: IBM VM? If so it's probably not an issue for Harmony but for IBM :) 2006/2/21, Vladimir Strigun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: We had discussion about bug-to-bug compatibility and it was decided to solve problems at the moment when they appear

Re: [jchevm] rough draft of Harmony Class Lib to gnu native method glue

2006-02-21 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
what happened when you tried to attach it? Weldon Washburn wrote: Archie, Tim, I tried to attach a zip file but harmony-dev rejected it. I also tried to post the zip file to harmony/jira. It did not work. I will mail the zip file to you out of band while I try to figure out how to upload th

Re: Bug-to-bug compatibility - first issue

2006-02-21 Thread Mikhail Loenko
I'd suggest splitting the issue into two different ones: The first one is interpreting the command line. I completely agree that we should do it similar to RI. The second one is as Vladimir said that behavior is caused by something in URLClassloader or kernel classes. Vladimir, if you could provi

Re: local test server (Was: Re: [jira] Commented: (HARMONY-71) java.net.URLConnection.setUseCaches throws unspecified IllegalAccessError)

2006-02-21 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Richard Liang wrote: Dears, Agree that server (maybe not local) is required for some sophisticated test cases. To make thing simply, we may provide more detail guide (step-by-step) on how to setup/configure a typical testing server. Or shall we setup a test server and allow user to share our

Re: Increasing Java Startup Performance

2006-02-21 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
The wiki certainly works well for this... Arzhan Kinzhalin wrote: On 2/16/06, Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/m/marnold/arnold-welc-rajan.final.pdf which implements a very interesting trick to speed up java startup performance: save the hotspot i

Re: Harmony tools and utilities

2006-02-21 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Stepan Mishura wrote: Hi all, Are we interesting in providing a competitive set of tools and utilities for Harmony implementation? Of course. (for tools list see: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/index.html ) Are we going to provide the same set, subset or superset? Or it is to

Re: Bug-to-bug compatibility - first issue

2006-02-21 Thread Paulex Yang
I agree with you that it is natural to copy RI behavior in this case, and I even don't think this is a bug, in the same reason with one of the bugs' evaluation [1], An empty path component is always (in both Unix/Posix-like and Windows systems) treated as "." Arzhan Kinzhalin wrote: URLClas

[jchevm] rough draft of Harmony Class Lib to gnu native method glue

2006-02-21 Thread Weldon Washburn
Archie, Tim, I tried to attach a zip file but harmony-dev rejected it. I also tried to post the zip file to harmony/jira. It did not work. I will mail the zip file to you out of band while I try to figure out how to upload the zip file. Sent separately is a zip file containing a first cut at

[jira] Created: (HARMONY-114) [jchevm] rough draft of files that glue Harmony Class Lib to JCHEVM native methods

2006-02-21 Thread weldon washburn (JIRA)
[jchevm] rough draft of files that glue Harmony Class Lib to JCHEVM native methods -- Key: HARMONY-114 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-114 Project: Harmony Type: Improv

Re: local test server (Was: Re: [jira] Commented: (HARMONY-71) java.net.URLConnection.setUseCaches throws unspecified IllegalAccessError)

2006-02-21 Thread Richard Liang
Dears, Agree that server (maybe not local) is required for some sophisticated test cases. To make thing simply, we may provide more detail guide (step-by-step) on how to setup/configure a typical testing server. Or shall we setup a test server and allow user to share our testing server? Richa

[jira] Updated: (HARMONY-113) java.nio.charset.Charset should regard empty charset name properly as Illegal CharsetName

2006-02-21 Thread Richard Liang (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-113?page=all ] Richard Liang updated HARMONY-113: -- Attachment: charset_patch.txt Please try my patch. Thanks a lot. > java.nio.charset.Charset should regard empty charset name properly as Illegal > Charse

[jira] Created: (HARMONY-113) java.nio.charset.Charset should regard empty charset name properly as Illegal CharsetName

2006-02-21 Thread Richard Liang (JIRA)
java.nio.charset.Charset should regard empty charset name properly as Illegal CharsetName - Key: HARMONY-113 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-113 Project: Harmony

auth natives (was: Re: svn commit: r378390 - in /incubator/harmony/enhanced/classlib/trunk/native-src/win.IA32/auth: ./ auth_copyright.c authwin32.c authwin32.h hyauth.def hyauth.rc makefile)

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison
FYI: I have added the C versions of the auth natives into the build. They are building as hyayth.dll | libhyauth.so into jre/bin. However, I *haven't* removed the jaaswin.dll | libjaasnix.so code (and these are still being loaded by NTSystem.java | UnixSystem.java) until I've tested the new librar

[jira] Updated: (HARMONY-112) native-src/build.xml should have clean-overlay-oss target

2006-02-21 Thread Mark Hindess (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-112?page=all ] Mark Hindess updated HARMONY-112: - Attachment: improved.native.clean.diff Patch to add clean-overlay-oss target. > native-src/build.xml should have clean-overlay-oss target > ---

[jira] Created: (HARMONY-112) native-src/build.xml should have clean-overlay-oss target

2006-02-21 Thread Mark Hindess (JIRA)
native-src/build.xml should have clean-overlay-oss target - Key: HARMONY-112 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-112 Project: Harmony Type: Improvement Components: Classlib Reporter: Mark H

Re: Bug-to-bug compatibility - first issue

2006-02-21 Thread Alexey Petrenko
2006/2/21, Vladimir Strigun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This issue can be fixed either in Harmony classlib or kernel classes in VM. Yes, you are right. -- Alexey A. Petrenko Intel Middleware Products Division

Re: Bug-to-bug compatibility - first issue

2006-02-21 Thread Arzhan Kinzhalin
> URLClassLoader can't load this class because searchURLs parameter in > findClassImpl does not contain current directory and includes only > "p:/". So, IMO problem is inside VM kernel classes. > > What do you think we should do with this issue? It actually has corresponding bug report [1] which p

Re: Platform dependent code placement (was: Re: repo layout again)

2006-02-21 Thread Nikolay Kuznetsov
Hello, team, I've tried to simplify construction below, which is sample of Andrey's ant script, and end up with following regular expression which matches string containing particular OS identifier or strings w/o any OS identifiers: ".*([_\\W]${env.OS}[_\\W].*$|.*(?From the compatibility point of

Re: newbie to project-where to start from

2006-02-21 Thread James Pluck
On 2/22/06, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James, > > Feel free to take a look at all the math areas of JSE in Harmony -- try > running some code (do you have any math apps that you use?) or try > measuring some performance numbers. Performance enhancement patches > will be most welcome.

Re: Bug-to-bug compatibility - first issue

2006-02-21 Thread Vladimir Strigun
This issue can be fixed either in Harmony classlib or kernel classes in VM. Thanks, Vladimir Strigun, Intel Middleware Products Division On 2/21/06, Alexey Petrenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IBM VM? > > If so it's probably not an issue for Harmony but for IBM :) > > 2006/2/21, Vladimir Strigun

Re: Bug-to-bug compatibility - first issue

2006-02-21 Thread Alexey Petrenko
IBM VM? If so it's probably not an issue for Harmony but for IBM :) 2006/2/21, Vladimir Strigun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We had discussion about bug-to-bug compatibility and it was decided to > solve problems at the moment when they appear. So I have the 1st > problem (below you can find the steps

Bug-to-bug compatibility - first issue

2006-02-21 Thread Vladimir Strigun
We had discussion about bug-to-bug compatibility and it was decided to solve problems at the moment when they appear. So I have the 1st problem (below you can find the steps for reproducing it): 1. Compile any java class and put it to jre/bin folder (I used Hello.class) 2. run java Hello (everythi

Re: java.lang.String.replaceFirst from IBM VM throws NPE

2006-02-21 Thread Alexey Petrenko
2006/2/21, Oliver Deakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As a sideline, I think we should be able to move String.java out of > kernel entirely anyway. We already have an implementation at > modules/kernel/src/main/java/java/lang/String.java, and the only VM > specific code in String is the intern() method.

Re: classlib build status emails?

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison
These are very cool -- thanks Stuart. We need to figure out a way that we can run the japitools on a regular basis to track progress. It is also a great way to indicate where people can help round-out a particular package for example. How should I interpret a line whose percentage figures don't

[jira] Commented: (HARMONY-101) NPE in java.util.regex.Pattern.compile()

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-101?page=comments#action_12367228 ] Tim Ellison commented on HARMONY-101: - Svetlana, Until the HARMONY-39 contribution is accepted you won't have much joy with the regex code, since there are only compile

Re: java.lang.String.replaceFirst from IBM VM throws NPE

2006-02-21 Thread Oliver Deakin
Hi Alexey, ok, Ive recreated your problem using the latest snapshot and VME. Essentially the code at modules/kernel/src/main/java/java/lang/String.java is the same as that in the VME kernel.jar. Looking in there (these calls can also be seen if the test is run within a debugger), we see that

Re: Classpath on Cygwin: failed to open native library error

2006-02-21 Thread Archie Cobbs
snowdosker wrote: Today I've made changes to eliminate the requirement that _JC_FULL_ALIGNMENT be at most sizeof(_jc_word), so this will fix the assertion in heap.c. Just compared my local version with svn repository at Harmony project.. Don't see any changes. Do you commit this changes in JC

[jira] Closed: (HARMONY-110) fixing the clean targets in linux makefiles

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-110?page=all ] Tim Ellison closed HARMONY-110: --- Verified by Mark > fixing the clean targets in linux makefiles > --- > > Key: HARMONY-110 > URL: http

[jira] Closed: (HARMONY-108) removing unused targets/variables from linux makefiles

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-108?page=all ] Tim Ellison closed HARMONY-108: --- Verified by Mark. > removing unused targets/variables from linux makefiles > -- > > Key: HARMONY-1

Re: [jira] Created: (HARMONY-110) fixing the clean targets in linux makefiles

2006-02-21 Thread Mark Hindess
On 21/02/06, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the clean-ups Mark -- can't wait for the Windows equivalents ;-) I was planning a few more incremental changes on the linux ones then, assuming people were happy with them, repeat the changes on the windows makefiles in one patch.

Re: classlib ant clean is incomplete

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison
Mark Hindess wrote: > I'm a unix hacker used to working at the command line. (But that > wasn't supposed to be a confession and I'm sure some of this will be > visible to IDE users.) When preparing patches, for example for the > the native-src, I might run: > > cd native-src > ant clean >

[jira] Commented: (HARMONY-109) reducing the verbose auto-generated variable names in linux makefiles

2006-02-21 Thread Mark Hindess (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-109?page=comments#action_12367210 ] Mark Hindess commented on HARMONY-109: -- Looks as I expected. Thanks Tim. > reducing the verbose auto-generated variable names in linux makefiles >

[jira] Commented: (HARMONY-110) fixing the clean targets in linux makefiles

2006-02-21 Thread Mark Hindess (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-110?page=comments#action_12367209 ] Mark Hindess commented on HARMONY-110: -- Looks as I expected. Thanks Tim. > fixing the clean targets in linux makefiles > --- > >

[jira] Commented: (HARMONY-108) removing unused targets/variables from linux makefiles

2006-02-21 Thread Mark Hindess (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-108?page=comments#action_12367208 ] Mark Hindess commented on HARMONY-108: -- Looks as I expected. Thanks Tim. > removing unused targets/variables from linux makefiles > ---

Re: Classpath on Cygwin: failed to open native library error

2006-02-21 Thread snowdosker
Hello, Archie Today I've made changes to eliminate the requirement that _JC_FULL_ALIGNMENT be at most sizeof(_jc_word), so this will fix the assertion in heap.c. Just compared my local version with svn repository at Harmony project.. Don't see any changes. Do you commit this changes in JCVM

Re: [jira] Created: (HARMONY-110) fixing the clean targets in linux makefiles

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison
Thanks for the clean-ups Mark -- can't wait for the Windows equivalents ;-) Regards, Tim Mark Hindess (JIRA) wrote: > fixing the clean targets in linux makefiles > --- > > Key: HARMONY-110 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMO

Re: classlib build status emails?

2006-02-21 Thread Stuart Ballard
Stuart Ballard gmail.com> writes: > If you can give me an url that will always point to the latest jar file(s), I > can set up nightly japi results and mail diffs to this list. Geir gave me a pointer to the latest snapshots, so the japi results are now online: http://www.kaffe.org/~stuart/japi/

Re: [classlib] using cpp

2006-02-21 Thread Alexey Petrenko
Yep, agreed. 2006/2/21, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > yes, let me refine my position. > > I don't object to using the C++ language where it makes sense, e.g. to > simplify things. IMHO the jaasnix native code's usage is somewhat > gratuitous, and results in a larger binary for no great benef

java.lang.String.replaceFirst from IBM VM throws NPE

2006-02-21 Thread Alexey Petrenko
We got problem with Harmony on IBM VM on Windows. java.lang.String.replaceFirst throws NPE. Here is the testcase: public class Test { public static void main(String args[]) { String xx = "test"; xx = xx.replaceFirst("t","z"); } } Here is the stack trace: C:\Work\Harmony\So

[jira] Resolved: (HARMONY-110) fixing the clean targets in linux makefiles

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-110?page=all ] Tim Ellison resolved HARMONY-110: - Resolution: Fixed Thanks Mark, Patch looks good, applied in repo revision 379478. Please check that it was applied as you expected. > fixing the cle

Re: Increasing Java Startup Performance

2006-02-21 Thread Arzhan Kinzhalin
On 2/16/06, Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.research.ibm.com/people/m/marnold/arnold-welc-rajan.final.pdf > > which implements a very interesting trick to speed up java startup > performance: save the hotspot information in a repository (at JVM shut > down) so that the JIT

[jira] Assigned: (HARMONY-110) fixing the clean targets in linux makefiles

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-110?page=all ] Tim Ellison reassigned HARMONY-110: --- Assign To: Tim Ellison > fixing the clean targets in linux makefiles > --- > > Key: HARMONY-110 >

[jira] Resolved: (HARMONY-109) reducing the verbose auto-generated variable names in linux makefiles

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-109?page=all ] Tim Ellison resolved HARMONY-109: - Resolution: Fixed Thanks Mark, The patch looks good -- applied in repo revision 379471. Please check that it has been applied as you expected. > red

[jira] Assigned: (HARMONY-109) reducing the verbose auto-generated variable names in linux makefiles

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-109?page=all ] Tim Ellison reassigned HARMONY-109: --- Assign To: Tim Ellison > reducing the verbose auto-generated variable names in linux makefiles >

[jira] Resolved: (HARMONY-108) removing unused targets/variables from linux makefiles

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-108?page=all ] Tim Ellison resolved HARMONY-108: - Resolution: Fixed Mark, Patch looks good. Committed in repo revision 379465. Please check that it has been applied as you expected. > removing unus

[jira] Assigned: (HARMONY-108) removing unused targets/variables from linux makefiles

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-108?page=all ] Tim Ellison reassigned HARMONY-108: --- Assign To: Tim Ellison > removing unused targets/variables from linux makefiles > -- > > Key

Re: newbie to project-where to start from

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison
James, Feel free to take a look at all the math areas of JSE in Harmony -- try running some code (do you have any math apps that you use?) or try measuring some performance numbers. Performance enhancement patches will be most welcome. Regards, Tim James Pluck wrote: > On 2/20/06, Vladimir Gorr

Re: [classlib] using cpp

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison
yes, let me refine my position. I don't object to using the C++ language where it makes sense, e.g. to simplify things. IMHO the jaasnix native code's usage is somewhat gratuitous, and results in a larger binary for no great benefit. If people want to use vanilla C++ features then sure, but we h

classlib ant clean is incomplete

2006-02-21 Thread Mark Hindess
I'm a unix hacker used to working at the command line. (But that wasn't supposed to be a confession and I'm sure some of this will be visible to IDE users.) When preparing patches, for example for the the native-src, I might run: cd native-src ant clean svn stat to see what files I've add

Re: Harmony tools and utilities

2006-02-21 Thread Archie Cobbs
Stepan Mishura wrote: Tool name Status Priority javadoc missing high javah missing medium keytool missing medium policytool missing low klist missingN/A FYI, jchevm contains a javah program (called

[jira] Resolved: (HARMONY-93) some methods in java.util.Collections don't throw NPE when the parameter is null

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-93?page=all ] Tim Ellison resolved HARMONY-93: Resolution: Fixed Svetlana, Fixed in LUNI module java.util.Collections at repo revision 379447. Please check this fully resolves your problem. > some m

[jira] Assigned: (HARMONY-93) some methods in java.util.Collections don't throw NPE when the parameter is null

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-93?page=all ] Tim Ellison reassigned HARMONY-93: -- Assign To: Tim Ellison > some methods in java.util.Collections don't throw NPE when the parameter is > null >

Re: Using APR for Harmony's native link to the OS?

2006-02-21 Thread Paulex Yang
Another advantages of portlib is that its function implementation can be easily replaced without recompiling the entire JVM, copied its document from [1] below: The port library is implemented as a table of function pointers. One advantage of a function pointer based table is the ability to r

Re: Harmony tools and utilities

2006-02-21 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Stepan Mishura wrote: Hi all, Are we interesting in providing a competitive set of tools and utilities for Harmony implementation? (for tools list see: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/index.html ) Are we going to provide the same set, subset or superset? Or it is too early to discus

Re: Increasing Java Startup Performance

2006-02-21 Thread Paulex Yang
Does the Java 5 feature CDS(class data sharing) work on this issue? pls. refer to /docs/guide/vm/class-data-sharing.html Wes Felter wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/m/marnold/arnold-welc-rajan.final.pdf which implements a very interesting trick to speed up j

[jira] Resolved: (HARMONY-90) StringBuffer.setLength(int) doesn't throw IndexOutOfBoundsException if the argument is negative

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-90?page=all ] Tim Ellison resolved HARMONY-90: Resolution: Cannot Reproduce Svetlana, The test you gave works for me, and I've added it as a regression test. If you still have this problem let me know

Re: classlib build status emails?

2006-02-21 Thread Mark Hindess
On 21/02/06, Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Hindess wrote: > > On 21/02/06, Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Mark Hindess wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Is there any interest in having build status emails sent to this list? > >>> I'm building classlib trunk wit

[jira] Assigned: (HARMONY-90) StringBuffer.setLength(int) doesn't throw IndexOutOfBoundsException if the argument is negative

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-90?page=all ] Tim Ellison reassigned HARMONY-90: -- Assign To: Tim Ellison > StringBuffer.setLength(int) doesn't throw IndexOutOfBoundsException if the > argument is negative > --

Re: [classlib] using cpp

2006-02-21 Thread Paulex Yang
Instead of introducing this strict language rule, I suggest to consider this restriction case by case with some principles. One of the principles should be that our codes can be easily ported to as many platforms as possible. Obviously ANSI C has more compatibility on multi platforms and is m

Re: local test server (Was: Re: [jira] Commented: (HARMONY-71) java.net.URLConnection.setUseCaches throws unspecified IllegalAccessError)

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison
Stepan Mishura wrote: > I glanced through a local server code from HARMONY-57 contribution without > looking into implementation details and ... this made me think. I catch hold > of the following: > 1) The server contains some testing code that looks not good for me Care to explain? > 2) It is n

[Fwd: Re: [classlib] build / test system]

2006-02-21 Thread David Tanzer
Sorry, was meant for the list... Forwarded Message > From: David Tanzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [classlib] build / test system > Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:36:23 +0100 > > It has it's own repository format, and at the moment our repository is >

Harmony tools and utilities

2006-02-21 Thread Stepan Mishura
Hi all, Are we interesting in providing a competitive set of tools and utilities for Harmony implementation? (for tools list see: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/index.html ) Are we going to provide the same set, subset or superset? Or it is too early to discuss tools list? As we agr

Re: [jira] Commented: (HARMONY-68) java.nio.charset.Charset.isSupported(String charsetName) does not throw IllegalCharsetNameException for spoiled standard sharset name

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Ellison
That seems like a reasonable interpretation, but who knows what the spec writer really meant?! and the result is the same, we will continue to match the reference implementation behavior by returning false. Thanks Tim Karan Malhi wrote: > Hi Tim, > > I would add something to this discussion. My

Re: [jira] Created: (HARMONY-62) java.text.BreakIterator.getSentenceInstance().next() treats '\n' as the end of the sentence

2006-02-21 Thread Art - Arthit Suriyawongkul
> As you may know, our (Harmony) implementation just wraps ICU4J's > BreakIterator. And the rules of ICU4J's BreakIterator is compliant with > Unicode TR29 which is different with the rules of RI. > > This is a common issue for most of the classes in "text". If we want > implementation to have the

Re: classlib build status emails?

2006-02-21 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Mark Hindess wrote: On 21/02/06, Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark Hindess wrote: Hi, Is there any interest in having build status emails sent to this list? I'm building classlib trunk with continuum and it would be simple for me to have messages like the following sent to th

Re: [jira] Created: (HARMONY-62) java.text.BreakIterator.getSentenceInstance().next() treats '\n' as the end of the sentence

2006-02-21 Thread Richard Liang
Dear Tatyana, As you may know, our (Harmony) implementation just wraps ICU4J's BreakIterator. And the rules of ICU4J's BreakIterator is compliant with Unicode TR29 which is different with the rules of RI. This is a common issue for most of the classes in "text". If we want implementation to