On 3 October 2011 12:15, Rainer Jung <rainer.j...@kippdata.de> wrote:
> On 02.10.2011 23:17, Philippe Mouawad wrote:
>> Ok, hope we can do the same.
>
> See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XMLBEANS-447
>
> We are not the only people, who doubt it's correct to include that class ...
>
> There was also a discussion some time ago in another ASF project,
> because the Sun license which is cited by Doug Lea has a "no use in
> nuclear facilities clause", which make it non-usable as an Open Source
> license.
>
> It looks like we are stuck here.

Yes, apart from the binary option which brings in lots of unneeded code.

> And the mentioning of the Harmony class in the above cited issue is a
> red herring. Diffing it with the JDK 5 standard ConcurrentHashMap shows
> little difference, so I doubt it will be much faster (though I didn't
> inspect the delta in detail).

I think the Harmony class was only mentioned as a means of supporting
Java 1.4, not as an alternative faster implementation.

>> I must say I don't understand why ConcurrentReaderHashMap is not in JDK.
>
> There's a discussion list for JSR166 (the concurrency stuff lead by Doug
> Lea) mentioned on the JSR 166 page maintained by Doug Lea. So maybe you
> can post a technical question there (what's the right class that solve
> the following problem ... and doesn't have sun licensing restrictions).
>
> Regards,
>
> Rainer
>
>
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