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Fred Potter commented on THRIFT-880:
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It's unfortunate that there's a lot of code duplication, but it might be best
that way. Development on the main Java library will never have to be
constrained by what's possible on JavaME.
> 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
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> Attachments: javame-v1.patch
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> 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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