Re: new project question

2004-01-17 Thread Brian McCallister
I'll second contacting the db lists =) This type of library has been created so many times by so many people that we practically *need* a strong implementation in (\w+)-commons so we can all stop writing it again (and again). -Brian (from the distant db.apache.org land) On Jan 17, 2004, at

[jxpath] OJB and JXPath was: Re: Commons - TLP

2003-12-21 Thread Brian McCallister
Speaking of JXPath and OJB integration... one thing that has been brought up a couple times is an XPath style query engine for OJB. I would love to see this happen, and the process of doing it for OJB 1.1 will help to make sure that the OTM API is as flexible as we want^H^H^H^H need it to be

[sandbox] Commit Request for Sandbox

2003-12-09 Thread Brian McCallister
I would like to receive commit privileges on the jakarta-commons-sandbox in order to work on tbm I am already a db.apache.org committer. Thank You! -Brian McCallister - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [sandbox] Commit Request for Sandbox

2003-12-09 Thread Brian McCallister
Thank you, requested. -Brian On Dec 9, 2003, at 7:21 PM, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: Quoting Brian McCallister [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would like to receive commit privileges on the jakarta-commons-sandbox in order to work on tbm I am already a db.apache.org committer. Thank You! -Brian

Re: [lang] DateUtils proposal, standard date generators

2003-12-08 Thread Brian McCallister
Several people, prodded by Glenn Nielson, discussed putting together a project to overcome the shortcoming of Date and Calendar, ranging from their pita to use-ness to their massive performance bottlenecks. I know Glenn has had the flu so don't think he has gotten the ball rolling, but this

Re: [lang] DateUtils proposal, standard date generators

2003-12-08 Thread Brian McCallister
at present. This doesn't exclude changes to DateUtils, but should limit the expansion on that class. (DateUtils should simplify tasks that have to use the JDK date classes) Stephen from:Brian McCallister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Several people, prodded by Glenn Nielson, discussed putting

Re: [collections] [contribution] CompositeSet and CompositeMap

2003-12-08 Thread Brian McCallister
On Dec 8, 2003, at 10:38 PM, Phil Steitz wrote: I missed your earlier comments, unless you mean on the CompositeCollection submission. * Please try to follow the [collections] style for braces. No problem, I figured this was just an autoformat via tool of choice -- can do so if it needs it. I

Re: [collections] [contribution] CompositeSet and CompositeMap

2003-12-07 Thread Brian McCallister
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 7, 2003, at 7:08 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote: I think that they probably are useful additions, however the review and commit may take some time :-) No worries =) I don't have an immediate or near future need for them to be in

Re: [collections] [contribution] CompositeSet and CompositeMap

2003-12-06 Thread Brian McCallister
PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote: Did you have any particular use case in mind, or a specific jakarta project? Stephen - Original Message - From: Brian McCallister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jakarta Commons Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 7:40 PM Subject

Re: [collections] AMap/IterableMap name

2003-12-02 Thread Brian McCallister
non-binding +1 on IterableMap It is longer, but Map2 is painful. -Brian On Tuesday, December 2, 2003, at 04:22 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote: There is no obvious 'standard' to follow here, other than adding '2' to the end (LayoutManager2). But even Sun tends to use descriptive alternate names

Re: [collections] [PATCH] CompositeCollection class for Commons-Collections

2003-11-05 Thread Brian McCallister
strategy. If no strategy is provided then add is unsupported. * * @since Commons Collections 3.0 * @version $Revision: $ $Date: $ * * @author Brian McCallister */ public class CompositeCollection implements Collection { /** CollectionMutator to handle changes to the collection

Re: [collections] [PATCH] CompositeCollection class for Commons-Collections

2003-11-05 Thread Brian McCallister
On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 07:48 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote: I've updated the class in line with commons standards/documentation etc. It will probably end up in the decorators subpackage, as it decorates other collections. A few style questions about this... You have changed the array

Re: [Math] common-math and bloated 3rd party libraries

2003-11-05 Thread Brian McCallister
On Wednesday, November 5, 2003, at 09:26 AM, __matthewHawthorne wrote: I, for one, like the idea of commons projects depending on each other when necessary. There is always a lot of controversy with regards to including another jar that I don't quite understand. I agree that if there are

Re: [collections] [PATCH] CompositeCollection class for Commons-Collections

2003-11-05 Thread Brian McCallister
Collections 3.0 * @version $Revision: $ $Date: $ * * @author Brian McCallister */ public class CompositeCollection implements Collection { /** CollectionMutator to handle changes to the collection */ protected CollectionMutator mutator; /** Collections in the composite

Re: [collections] [PATCH] CompositeCollection class for Commons-Collections

2003-11-04 Thread Brian McCallister
On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 04:00 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote: The main aim of the Mutator change was to make the implementation obvious and typesafe. IMO it does fit better with the collections API. Okay, I don't feel strongly about it, and if it stays as an inner class it will work fine.

Re: [collections] [PATCH] CompositeCollection class for Commons-Collections

2003-11-03 Thread Brian McCallister
On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 07:48 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote: I've updated the class in line with commons standards/documentation etc. Much appreciated! I've also changed the way the Mutator works - see what you think, it seems cleaner/quicker I think. Also a lot less flexible. Mutator

[collections] [PATCH] CompositeCollection class for Commons-Collections

2003-11-02 Thread Brian McCallister
collections. See individual methods * for specific behaviors in regard to mutators. * * @author a href=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Brian McCallister/a */ public class CompositeCollection implements Collection { /** Mutator to handle calls to add(Object) */ private Mutator addStrat

Re: [collections] [PATCH] CompositeCollection class for Commons-Collections

2003-11-02 Thread Brian McCallister
behaviors in regard to mutators. * * @author a href=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Brian McCallister/a */ public class CompositeCollection implements Collection { /** Mutator to handle calls to add(Object) */ protected Mutator addStrat; /** Mutator to handle calls to addAll(Collection c