Re: Contributing SableVM?

2006-03-22 Thread Enrico Migliore
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: Second, we need to discuss here in Harmony the approach we want to take with adopting the community of committers. We have many people here that are not committers that have been working hard earning commit status, so we need to be careful not to discourage anyone.

Re: Contributing SableVM?

2006-03-22 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Hi Geir, > b) hopefully an ICLA from each contributor The ICLA rules are less restrictive than the Apache License rules: 2. Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, You hereby grant to the Foundation and to recipients of software distributed by the

Re: Contributing SableVM?

2006-03-22 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Oh! I forgot to add... I think that the reverse should also apply. I do not think that it would be OK for current Harmony commiters to simply go and change the SableVM code without discussing it on this list first. Their right to commit obvious little patches and improvements within the sablevm

Re: Contributing SableVM?

2006-03-22 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > First, I'm going to assume that you will have no problem in getting > > a) permission from all contributors to re-license under the Apache License I'm almost done with this. Only one significant permission has yet to be received. (Yet, I got a unofficial verbal permis

Re: Contributing SableVM?

2006-03-22 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Hey, +1 from me, but this comes as no surprise, I am sure. We have a couple of things to think about here. First, I'm going to assume that you will have no problem in getting a) permission from all contributors to re-license under the Apache License b) hopefully an ICLA from each contributor c)

Re: Contributing SableVM?

2006-03-22 Thread Alex Karasulu
Weldon Washburn wrote: On 3/22/06, Etienne Gagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What I would like to propose, is to contribute our stable, end-user targeted trunk version to the Harmony project. This would probably allow for a merge of the JCVM and SableVM development efforts +1 on the a

Re: [OT] what is a "mentor", anyway? (was: [classlib] where to put mods...)

2006-03-22 Thread Henri Yandell
On 3/22/06, Leo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi gang, > > Just some soul-searching on a sunny wednesday morning (over here > anyways)... > > much of the traffic I see these days on harmony-dev (I'm through the > back-log. Yay!) to me looks like lots of people in "violent agreement" > and it

Re: Contributing SableVM?

2006-03-22 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Hi all, Thanks for the positive feedback. In my earlier message I forgot to ask: If the Harmony project is interested in the SableVM contribution (how is that officially decided?), what process should I follow to actually make a contribution? I've fond a "Contribution Policy" web page, but I di

RE: sorry (was: Re: [result] Re: [vote] Acceptance of HARMONY-39 : Contribution of beans, regex and math class library code)

2006-03-22 Thread Magnusson, Geir
No worries. I figured it was something like that, although i'll be the first to admit that I do and say laughable things. Focus on the talk. Do we say 'good luck' or 'break a leg', show biz style? Too bad we don't have swing and awt yet. Would be memorable to demonstrate IDEA running in Ha

Re: ITC: Contribution of java.rmi

2006-03-22 Thread FaeLLe
Hello Daniel, Can you please tell us which algorithm you made use of for the Distributed Garbage Collector ? I am currently researching in this field and details would benifit me. Regards, - Vikram On 3/22/06, Daniel Gandara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > We are thinking in making a re

JIRA problems again?

2006-03-22 Thread Mark Hindess
I'm getting 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable responses again. ;-( -Mark. -- Mark Hindess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IBM Java Technology Centre, UK.

sorry (was: Re: [result] Re: [vote] Acceptance of HARMONY-39 : Contribution of beans, regex and math class library code)

2006-03-22 Thread Tim Ellison
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > Tim Ellison wrote: >> Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: >>> With the "custom" of putting in things in o.a.h.t are we >>> implicitly discouraging good testing practice? >> >> This is laughable. > > You are going to have to explain why it's "laughable". If you are > testing a.b.

Re: ITC: Contribution of java.rmi

2006-03-22 Thread Daniel Gandara
Hi, We are thinking in making a release of java.rmi package compatible with harmony's VM and classlib code (1.4.2), using the compiler options that allow partial 5.0 language features, and removing all j.u.c classes we use. We know that we will loose performance, but it looks like it is worth

Re: Contributing SableVM?

2006-03-22 Thread George Harley
Etienne Gagnon wrote: Hi Harmony developers, So, you might have heard of unofficial rumors of potential collaboration between the Harmony project and the SableVM project. Here's a message I sent lately on the SableVM mailing list: http://sablevm.org/lists/sablevm-devel/2006-March/000608.html T

Re: Contributing SableVM?

2006-03-22 Thread Weldon Washburn
On 3/22/06, Etienne Gagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I would like to propose, is to contribute our stable, end-user > targeted trunk version to the Harmony project. This would probably > allow for a merge of the JCVM and SableVM development efforts +1 on the above. I suspect it will be

Re: [classlib] suggestions on new kernel directory structure to hold GNU Classpath mods

2006-03-22 Thread Weldon Washburn
On 3/22/06, Leo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 06:01:48PM -0800, Weldon Washburn wrote: > > Below is a list of modified kernel files that allow Harmony ClassLib > > to run "hello world" on any JVM that is expecting GNU Classpath. > > If that means what I think it means

Re: how to build Harmony on Windows (with minimum of commercial soft)

2006-03-22 Thread Mikhail Loenko
I've downloaded masm32 from masm32.com it has ml.exe and some other things that I have previosly found in MSFT (I seem could save hundreds Mb of traffic) Now I need Delayimp.lib :) It is referenced from native-src/win.IA32/port/makefile Thoughts? Thanks, Mikhail 2006/3/22, Geir Magnusson Jr <[

Contributing SableVM?

2006-03-22 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Hi Harmony developers, So, you might have heard of unofficial rumors of potential collaboration between the Harmony project and the SableVM project. Here's a message I sent lately on the SableVM mailing list: http://sablevm.org/lists/sablevm-devel/2006-March/000608.html To summarize the public a

Re: [classlib] Testing

2006-03-22 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Leo Simons wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:02:44AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: Leo Simons wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 07:15:28AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: Pulling out of the various threads where we have been discussing, can we agree on the problem : We have unique problems

Re: [classlib] suggestions on new kernel directory structure to hold GNU Classpath mods

2006-03-22 Thread George Harley
Hi, This sounds great. Could you give us more information on how you have configured your launching environment ? Are you using the Harmony launcher ? Are you building your versions of the kernel classes into a kernel.jar that gets dropped into the runtime bootclasspath ? It sounds like your

Re: [classlib] Testing

2006-03-22 Thread Leo Simons
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:02:44AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > Leo Simons wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 07:15:28AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > >>Pulling out of the various threads where we have been discussing, can we > >>agree on the problem : > >> > >>We have unique problems comp

Re: [classlib] where to put mods that make classlib more portable

2006-03-22 Thread George Harley
+1 for Paulex. Weldon, you might also find the documentation about the Harmony kernel classes interesting... http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/incubator/harmony/enhanced/classlib/trunk/doc/kernel_doc/html/index.html#KernelJavaClasses Best regards, George Paulex Yang wrote: Weldo

Re: [jira] Created: (HARMONY-233) private serialVersionID field should be set in javax.security.auth.kerberos.KerberosKey class

2006-03-22 Thread Stepan Mishura
Right, it is 1.4 spec bug. I've serialized the same objects on 1.4 and 1.5implementations and compared byte arrays - they are equal. Thanks, Stepan. On 3/22/06, Mikhail Loenko wrote: > > As far as it is documented, it is a feature rather than a bug :) > > The change in the spec is incompatible,

Re: [OT] Re: Unit testing revisited

2006-03-22 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Leo Simons wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 07:34:16AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: LEO : I'll point out that every time you restrict to an ordered sequence of taking care of things in an open souce community you do slow them down just a little (hey, that's an interesting assertion. Hmm. Sho

Re: [jira] Resolved: (HARMONY-31) Move peformance timing of unit tests into a decorator class.

2006-03-22 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
George Harley wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: Do you think this should be re-opened, or an new JIRA created to keep things clear? geir Hi, My vote is to keep it closed since the original issue has gone away. Is there something you want to recover from it that adds functionality? ge

Re: [classlib] Testing

2006-03-22 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Leo Simons wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 07:15:28AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: Pulling out of the various threads where we have been discussing, can we agree on the problem : We have unique problems compared to other Java projects because we need to find a way to reliably test the thing

Re: [jira] Created: (HARMONY-233) private serialVersionID field should be set in javax.security.auth.kerberos.KerberosKey class

2006-03-22 Thread Mikhail Loenko
As far as it is documented, it is a feature rather than a bug :) The change in the spec is incompatible, but new variant is more logical. So, 1.4 spec bug seems to be fixed. Thanks, Mikhail 2006/3/22, Samoilenko, Svetlana V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't think that it is bug in specs. > The spe

[OT] Re: Unit testing revisited

2006-03-22 Thread Leo Simons
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 07:34:16AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > >Heh. You find *those* by running the app server tests :-). I suspect that > >running the J2EE TCK against geronimo running on harmony and comparing it > >with running the J2EE TCK against geronimo running on the sun jdk is > >goi

Re: [jira] Resolved: (HARMONY-31) Move peformance timing of unit tests into a decorator class.

2006-03-22 Thread George Harley
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: George Harley wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: Tim Ellison wrote: I know that you'll be disappointed if I didn't ... Geir Magnusson Jr (JIRA) wrote: Resolution: Won't Fix This has been taken care of elsewhere, IIRC. Resolving for now to see if there's howl

Re: [classlib] Testing

2006-03-22 Thread Leo Simons
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 07:15:28AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > Pulling out of the various threads where we have been discussing, can we > agree on the problem : > > We have unique problems compared to other Java projects because we need > to find a way to reliably test the things that are

Re: Unit testing revisited

2006-03-22 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Leo Simons wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 06:41:56AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: [SNIP] You forgot one - "integration test", which is a unit test that's been around long enough to shave. :) (It's actually not a unit test...) "integration test" --> any test that is not an implement

RE: [jira] Created: (HARMONY-233) private serialVersionID field should be set in javax.security.auth.kerberos.KerberosKey class

2006-03-22 Thread Samoilenko, Svetlana V
I don't think that it is bug in specs. The spec 1.5 for SecretKey interface reads: "Field: serialVersionUID The class fingerprint that is set to indicate serialization compatibility since J2SE 1.4." Mikhail, what is your opinion? Regards, Svetlana -Original Message- From: Geir Magnusson J

Re: how to build Harmony on Windows (with minimum of commercial soft)

2006-03-22 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Zsejki Sorin Miklós wrote: I think it should be possible to solve this by using the __asm keyword, because the inline assembler is integrated in the compiler. This is just an idea, I don't know how much trouble could come with this, as it would require rewriting/reorganizing .asm files into .

Re: [jira] Resolved: (HARMONY-31) Move peformance timing of unit tests into a decorator class.

2006-03-22 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
George Harley wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: Tim Ellison wrote: I know that you'll be disappointed if I didn't ... Geir Magnusson Jr (JIRA) wrote: Resolution: Won't Fix This has been taken care of elsewhere, IIRC. Resolving for now to see if there's howls of protest... How was

Re: Unit testing revisited

2006-03-22 Thread Leo Simons
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 06:41:56AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > >Eg I would suggest that we bite the bullet and go something like this: > > > > "unit test" --> any test runnable by a "unit testing framework" such as > > JUnit or Cactus. > > > > "implementation test" --> a test run t

Re: [jira] Created: (HARMONY-233) private serialVersionID field should be set in javax.security.auth.kerberos.KerberosKey class

2006-03-22 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
This sounds like a bug in the *spec*, because it means that theoretically, there is 1.4 code that won't compile under 1.5 due to reasons other than collision w/ language changes and 1.4 binary wouldn't run. Right? geir Svetlana Samoilenko (JIRA) wrote: private serialVersionID field should

[classlib] Testing

2006-03-22 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Pulling out of the various threads where we have been discussing, can we agree on the problem : We have unique problems compared to other Java projects because we need to find a way to reliably test the things that are commonly expected to be a solid point of reference - namely the core class

Re: how to build Harmony on Windows (with minimum of commercial soft)

2006-03-22 Thread Fernando Cassia
Anyone here ever heard of OpenWatcom? http://www.openwatcom.org It's the product formerly known as Watcom C++ 10.6. Now open source, thanks to Sybase and Scitech Software. FC On 3/22/06, Zsejki Sorin Miklós <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I had the same problem - I have to use the non-free-as-

Re: [jira] Resolved: (HARMONY-31) Move peformance timing of unit tests into a decorator class.

2006-03-22 Thread George Harley
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: Tim Ellison wrote: I know that you'll be disappointed if I didn't ... Geir Magnusson Jr (JIRA) wrote: Resolution: Won't Fix This has been taken care of elsewhere, IIRC. Resolving for now to see if there's howls of protest... How was it resolved? I thought

Re: how to build Harmony on Windows (with minimum of commercial soft)

2006-03-22 Thread Zsejki Sorin Miklós
I think it should be possible to solve this by using the __asm keyword, because the inline assembler is integrated in the compiler. This is just an idea, I don't know how much trouble could come with this, as it would require rewriting/reorganizing .asm files into .c ones. Geir Magnusson Jr wr

Re: Unit testing revisited

2006-03-22 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Leo Simons wrote: Just two cents (or a little more) from the peanut gallery... On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:45:42PM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: Tim Ellison wrote: Just to clarify terminology -- unit tests are a 'style' of test that focus on particular units of functionality. Unit tests ca

Re: how to build Harmony on Windows (with minimum of commercial soft)

2006-03-22 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
I had the same problem - I have to use the non-free-as-in-beer, certainly-not-as-in-speech MSFT Visual Studio .NET 2003 toolchain, plus some other package thingy from MSFT that adds something to it. (I don't remember). I keep forgetting to suggest this to people who pop in here... can someo

Re: [result] Re: [vote] Acceptance of HARMONY-39 : Contribution of beans, regex and math class library code

2006-03-22 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Etienne Gagnon wrote: Just a random idea... Why not have a special "testing" mode in the VM that would trigger special permissions to code in ".test" packages? You wouldn't need that when testing in the VM. :) That's why Tim suggested o.a.h.test. so then you stay out of package namesp

Re: how to build Harmony on Windows (with minimum of commercial soft)

2006-03-22 Thread Sanket Sharma
Paulex Yang wrote: Mikhail I tried same thing before, and failed in same reason, I cannot find this message in mailing list archive, but I remembered I asked this question before. The facts made me crazy is I had to download all those things like MS platform SDK, .Net SDK and vctoolkit2003,

Re: how to build Harmony on Windows (with minimum of commercial soft)

2006-03-22 Thread Paulex Yang
Mikhail I tried same thing before, and failed in same reason, I cannot find this message in mailing list archive, but I remembered I asked this question before. The facts made me crazy is I had to download all those things like MS platform SDK, .Net SDK and vctoolkit2003, and then had to hack

[OT] what is a "mentor", anyway? (was: [classlib] where to put mods...)

2006-03-22 Thread Leo Simons
Hi gang, Just some soul-searching on a sunny wednesday morning (over here anyways)... much of the traffic I see these days on harmony-dev (I'm through the back-log. Yay!) to me looks like lots of people in "violent agreement" and it prompts me to write messages like this, eg trying to help the pe

how to build Harmony on Windows (with minimum of commercial soft)

2006-03-22 Thread Mikhail Loenko
Hello I'm trying to build Harmony on Windows XP with free MSFT soft only. I've downloaded already ~1Gb of various free MSFT soft, made some hacks on various files and now need to compile *.asm we have in native-src. our readme does not mention that type of files Is there any way to get ml.exe

Re: [classlib] where to put mods that make classlib more portable

2006-03-22 Thread Leo Simons
I detect a difference in approach between "doing things right" and "doing the least amount of work to get things running". I think both are good ways to make progress, and we should do both. On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:49:37AM +0800, Paulex Yang wrote: > There has been a VM/classlib interface defin

Re: [classlib] suggestions on new kernel directory structure to hold GNU Classpath mods

2006-03-22 Thread Leo Simons
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 06:01:48PM -0800, Weldon Washburn wrote: > Below is a list of modified kernel files that allow Harmony ClassLib > to run "hello world" on any JVM that is expecting GNU Classpath. If that means what I think it means that's *awesome*. Once this code is in SVN and tested a bit

Unit testing revisited (was: ...Acceptance of HARMONY-39...)

2006-03-22 Thread Leo Simons
Just two cents (or a little more) from the peanut gallery... On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:45:42PM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > Tim Ellison wrote: > >Just to clarify terminology -- unit tests are a 'style' of test that > >focus on particular units of functionality. Unit tests can be both > >imp

Re: [result] Re: [vote] Acceptance of HARMONY-39 : Contribution of beans, regex and math class library code

2006-03-22 Thread Stepan Mishura
Hi Richard, On 3/21/06, Richard Liang wrote: > Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > > Good unit tests are going to be testing things that are package > > protected. You can't do that if you aren't in the same package > > (obviously). With the "custom" of putting in things in o.a.h.t are we > > implicitly