Re: Moving Apache Harmony to the Attic

2011-10-30 Thread chris . gray
from several companies and a specification you would pay not to have to implement. Congratulations (and heaps of thanks) to all those involved. All the best Chris Gray

Re: Rebooting the Harmony project

2011-03-14 Thread chris . gray
[David Beberman] We are a commercial JVM as well, Aicas. Not sure that is relevant for this discussion though. Kind of hard to tell what would be relevant to a discussion of this type. Maybe OP meant to say, whilst there are at least a dozen implementations of the Java VM there is currently

Re: [classlib][nio] JDK 7 / WatchService support

2011-02-27 Thread chris . gray
2011/2/27 Ray Chen clrayc...@gmail.com Hi Jimmy, Thank you for the information! I have a question here, jpathwatch is in GPL license, can harmony use that? I am not an legal expert, just curious. Good question Ray, and I think it's OK if the owner hold the copyright and re-license it.

Re: strong type cast needed in java. (overriding enhancement.)

2010-12-29 Thread chris . gray
Hi Prashanth, I believe that all these kinds of features i.e. base/sub class access confusion, friend functions were all purposely avoided in JAVA to make life simple for the programmers and to get rid of crashes that might possibly occur on supporting the same. I agree. The simple syntax

Re: roadmap suggestion

2010-12-22 Thread chris . gray
Hi Paul, Exactly.I suggested additionally that if it avoids patent problems, alternative bytecode could be used instead (like Dalvik's, since it's already widespread) as long as that doesn't block performant support of non-Java languages on the VM - while reusing as much of Harmony's existing

Re: AW: Harmony could be a world beater with the right strategy, not rot in the attic!

2010-12-16 Thread chris . gray
instruction sets too, the JVM is very far from being the Last Word. But then I'm not sure that Java or JVM compatibility is a good starting point, it would be better to look at a more modern language design and see what kind of VM support it really needs. Kind regards Chris Gray

Re: [general] Harmony future roadmap

2010-11-08 Thread chris . gray
have been in vain. For the time being I prefer to keep the flame burning. Best regards Chris Gray

Re: [general] Harmony future roadmap

2010-10-31 Thread chris . gray
Hi Tim, I think all options and opinions are open for discussion. We could simply continue with the current goal and encourage the Apache Board to seek the JCK license by whatever means is posible, we could modify our goal and plan to release an uncertified Java SE runtime, or more radically

Re: [classlib][x-net] Creating a provider based on OpenSSL

2010-08-19 Thread chris . gray
of view I would prefer an implementation which simply ignored the user-supplied SecureRandom (and clearly documented this behaviour). I also have to say that if this is the biggest unsolved problem you still have, I'm pretty impressed. Best regards Chris Gray

Re: [classlib][x-net] Creating a provider based on OpenSSL

2010-07-19 Thread chris . gray
looks like a daunting task. Don't let me put you off though! Best regards Chris Gray

[tools] Problem building apache-harmony-5.0-src-r946978

2010-06-26 Thread chris . gray
Hi all, Trying to build from source (apache-harmony-5.0-src-r946978) results in the following: -really-download: [echo] Fetching depends/jars/xerces_2.9.1/xerces.zip [get] Getting: http://www.apache.org/dist/xml/xerces-j/Xerces-J-bin.2.9.1.zip [get] To:

Re: Idiomatic Java: inverted conditions

2009-10-27 Thread Chris Gray
to be overlooked. Greets Chris Gray -- Chris Gray /k/ Embedded Java Solutions

Re: Probs with checking certificates from JarInputStream

2009-05-12 Thread Chris Gray
Hi Tim, Chris Gray wrote: snip Note that this code doesn't even call closeEntry() on the meta-files it encounters, and yet it still works on RI 1.4/1.6. On harmony the *.DSA and *.SF files are simply skipped, without any entries being added to the metaEntries map. Adding an else clause

Re: Probs with checking certificates from JarInputStream

2009-05-09 Thread Chris Gray
a slow server over a chunked HTTP stream - been there, done that), but in this case it's probably justified; arguably the JarInputStream object is not fully constructed until the signatures have been processed. What a mess. What a format. What an API. Cheers Chris -- Chris Gray/k

Probs with checking certificates from JarInputStream

2009-05-08 Thread Chris Gray
will have an idea how to fix it? Best regards Chris Gray /k/ Embedded Java Solutions _ Scarlet says goodbye to download limits! ADSL20 NO LIMIT, only € 29,95 Go to www.scarlet.be for more info! TestBundle_1.0.0.jar Description: application/java-archive

Re: [general] Reduced footprint class library

2008-09-29 Thread Chris Gray
hard to be dynamic *and* compact *and* start up fast. :-( I suppose the Sun-defined provider mechanism only works for 100%-Java charsets? Regards Chris -- Chris Gray/k/ Embedded Java Solutions BE0503765045 Embedded Mobile Java, OSGihttp://www.k-embedded-java.com/ [EMAIL

Re: [general] Reduced footprint class library

2008-09-29 Thread Chris Gray
On Monday 29 September 2008 17:46, Tim Ellison wrote: Chris Gray wrote: You can now go into the NIO_CHAR/make/excludesfile and specify converters to drop from the Harmony provider. That allows you to ditch some esoteric charsets and save footprint, and in many cases the ICU provider has

Re: [general] Reduced footprint class library

2008-09-19 Thread Chris Gray
are not in the released artefact? Real ones or just-to-make-it-compile stubs? And afterwards do we leave those methods in the class file (so if someone uses the method it will break at runtime), or do we bytecode-engineer them out and hence break binary compatibility? Regards, Chris -- Chris Gray

Re: [general] Reduced footprint class library

2008-09-19 Thread Chris Gray
On Friday 19 September 2008 14:05, Tim Ellison wrote: Chris Gray wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2008 17:31, Tim Ellison wrote: A good example. Harmony's BEANS module depends upon AWT through a spurious public interface parameter (and the fact that BEANS carries around the persistence

Re: [general]Mika and Harmony

2008-09-18 Thread Chris Gray
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Re: [general] Reduced footprint class library

2008-09-18 Thread Chris Gray
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Re: [general] Reduced footprint class library

2008-09-18 Thread Chris Gray
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Re: [general]Mika and Harmony

2008-09-17 Thread Chris Gray
is to 1.4, if you see what I mean. And we would be bringing a VM which can run those classes on a lot of embedded platforms - ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, maybe soon SH4 too. Best regards Chris -- Chris Gray/k/ Embedded Java Solutions BE0503765045 Embedded Mobile Java, OSGihttp://www.k

[general]Mika and Harmony

2008-09-16 Thread Chris Gray
on supporting Java5 features. What do people think - does Mika have a role to play in Harmony or should we just be downstream users of the Harmony classlibs? Best rgards Chris -- Chris Gray/k/ Embedded Java Solutions BE0503765045 Embedded Mobile Java, OSGihttp://www.k

Re: [classlib][drlvm][swing] test TEST-javax.swing.text.DefaultStyledDocumentRTest leads to VM crash

2006-11-22 Thread Chris Gray
On Thursday 23 November 2006 07:02, Vladimir Ivanov wrote: No, it is time for lunch :) Eh? I only just had breakfast ...