JavaME code generator and runtime library
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Key: THRIFT-880
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-880
Project: Thrift
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Compiler (General)
Affects Versions: 0.4
Reporter: Dave Engberg
Fix For: 0.5
There are a number of mobile devices that use use some variant of the "Java
Micro Edition" (Java ME) platform for their development environments.
The JavaME platform is barely a second cousin of modern Java SE/EE, and most
modern Java libraries like Thrift aren't even conceivable on those devices due
to lack of things like generics, modern collection classes, etc.
This basically means that some simple "vanilla" Java code can be used in both
places, but it's better to consider JavaME as just a separate platform with a
historic overlap rather than a "subset."
We've been using a JavaME profile of Thrift (CLDC 1.1) for a while on some of
our own platforms, and are now making it available to some partners. I've
cleaned up our code generator and JavaME libraries in this patch for (hopeful)
inclusion into a Thrift release in the future.
This includes:
t_javame_generator.cc based on the 0.4.0 Java generator with heavy
modifications for the generated code to comply with the ME profile.
lib/javame - a runtime library for ME devices that is based on a fairly old
version of the Java libraries (pre-incubation)
This patch does not modify the main Java generator at all ... this is a
parallel project and runtime library.
These changes are too large to reasonably fold into the "Java" generator as an
option (i.e. that would be a bit like trying to merge the C# and Java
generators into one.) I realize that results in a bit of a fork.
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