[all] RE: Notify about using the e-mail account.

2004-03-03 Thread Arun Thomas
This seems to have been sent to commons-dev. Is it actually directed to me personally? Any clarification would be appreciated. There was also no attachment with additional instructions. -AMT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March

RE: [VOTE] Release Commons Collections 3.0

2004-01-15 Thread Arun Thomas
VOTEs please, closing Tuesday 20th Jan Midnight GMT [ X ] +1 - I support the release of Commons-Collections-3.0 [ ] +0 [ ] -0 [ ] -1 - I oppose the release of Commons-Collections-3.0 because... - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

RE: [lang] new StringBuffer +

2003-12-18 Thread Arun Thomas
+1 Good idea -AMT -Original Message- From: ASHWIN Suresh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 4:35 AM To: 'Jakarta Commons Developers List' Subject: RE: [lang] new StringBuffer + How about StringBufferPlus ?? It's not an abbreviation, fits into Stephen's

RE: [lang][PROPOSAL] How to best address Bug 25454

2003-12-13 Thread Arun Thomas
+1 to #3 Anyone that's followed the instructions is getting incorrect behaviour that what they were expecting anyway Either they've fixed it (in which case they're either dependent on the current functionality of replaceChars, or on something completely related) or it hasn't bitten them

RE: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 25154] New: - IteratorChain bug with empty iterators.

2003-12-04 Thread Arun Thomas
Folks, Anyone know how I, as a committer, go about getting a new password for CVS. I've searched through all my archives on multiple boxes and finally have come to the conclusion that I've lost the email with my password. Help! -AMT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New CVS Password

2003-12-04 Thread Arun Thomas
Folks, Anyone know how I, as a committer, go about getting a new password for CVS. I've searched through all my archives on multiple boxes and finally have come to the conclusion that I've lost the email with my password. Help! -AMT

RE: FW: [collections] Primitive-value maps

2003-12-04 Thread Arun Thomas
-Original Message- From: Arun Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 17:54 Ash, Classes for this purpose which previously existed in COLLECTIONS were moved to the Sandbox project - PRIMITIVES. Please take a look there. There's apparently a lot of work going

RE: [VOTE] New committer - Neil O'Toole

2003-11-26 Thread Arun Thomas
+1 -Original Message- From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 2:35 PM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: [VOTE] New committer - Neil O'Toole I would like to nominate Neil O'Toole as an Apache Jakarta Commons committer. Neil has

RE: [collections] CaseInsensitiveHashMap

2003-11-25 Thread Arun Thomas
The issue of recreating the original key is exactly the value behind the process that Stephen proposes. While the proposal leads to a more general solution with the potential complexity of writing good hash functions, it certainly covers simple cases like this - where a transformation is

RE: [lang] unexpected StringUtils.split behavior (was RE: suggestion for new StringUtils.method)

2003-11-24 Thread Arun Thomas
I also know that this is more than you intended, but any thought of incorporating the split on string into the new StringTokenizer replacement as well? I think that would be pretty useful. (It's behaviour in two places, but implementation could certainly delegate) -AMT -Original

RE: TimerMap

2003-11-24 Thread Arun Thomas
Seems like a cool idea However, I'm concerned about the following points in the implementation: If the timer expires after an iterator on the keys or values is obtained, the underlying map is modified directly - this means that the next access to the iterator (see HashMap javadoc) will

RE: TimerMap

2003-11-24 Thread Arun Thomas
Actually, I'm only concerned about keySet().iterator() and values().iterator(). Not about keySet() and values() :) Perhaps something that can be worked in as we move forward? I think this (the ill-formedness of the iterators) could be something captured in docs today and implemented

RE: [lang] possible DateUtils method

2003-11-24 Thread Arun Thomas
Is this necessary? The result of Calendar.getTime().getTime() is a long representing the number of milliseconds since the epoch where the epochal point is defined as Jan 1, 1970 00:00:00.000 GMT. This already normalizes for GMT and for daylight savings. The calendar class essentially

RE: [lang] unexpected StringUtils.split behavior (was RE: suggestion for new StringUtils.method)

2003-11-24 Thread Arun Thomas
to incorporate this new method there, if it gets committed to StringUtils at all in the first place. Al --- Arun Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also know that this is more than you intended, but any thought of incorporating the split on string into the new StringTokenizer replacement

RE: [PROPOSAL] emeritus committers?

2003-11-13 Thread Arun Thomas
AMammenT - Arun Mammen Thomas - active :) just haven't committed since being voted in as a commiter a month+ ago. -AMT -Original Message- From: Rodney Waldhoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PROPOSAL] emeritus

RE: SUBMITING new StringUtils.method

2003-11-12 Thread Arun Thomas
[] in the constructor in addition to String). -Original Message- From: Arun Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:29 PM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: SUBMITING new StringUtils.method Goto http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22692 Attach your

RE: suggestion for new StringUtils.method

2003-11-11 Thread Arun Thomas
Take a look at the following bug entry currently in Bugzilla Your idea seems to be an expansion of the desired functionality described by the bug. I would certainly add the additional behaviour you propose (escape characters to prevent tokenization) to this bug. It would be interesting,

RE: suggestion for new StringUtils.method

2003-11-11 Thread Arun Thomas
Ooops Here's the bug entry: http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22692 -AMT -Original Message- From: Arun Thomas Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:31 AM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: RE: suggestion for new StringUtils.method Take a look

RE: suggestion for new StringUtils.method

2003-11-11 Thread Arun Thomas
? -Original Message- From: Arun Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 1:32 PM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: RE: suggestion for new StringUtils.method Ooops Here's the bug entry: http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22692 -AMT

SUBMITING new StringUtils.method

2003-11-11 Thread Arun Thomas
Goto http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22692 Attach your source and test files. -AMT P.S. // defaults to true public boolean isIgnoreLeadingWhitespace(); public void setIgnoreLeadingWhitespace(boolean ignoreLeadingWhitespace); // defaults to true public

RE: [collections] [PATCH] CompositeCollection class for Commons-Collections

2003-11-07 Thread Arun Thomas
Phil, Would you mind adding an entry to bugzilla reporting the UOE thrown by IteratorChain? I agree with Steven that this sounds like a bug, and, since you have the use case which encountered it It would be great to have the details/test condition. Something I can fix as soon as

RE: [collections] [PATCH] CompositeCollection class for Commons-Collections

2003-11-05 Thread Arun Thomas
The last comment suggests another possibly useful method: toList(), returning an aggregated collection consisting of all of the objects in the composite collections. In this case, will there be a clever way to return an aggregation of this sort that isn't simply a new object with copies of

RE: [collections] [PATCH] CompositeCollection class for Commons-Collections

2003-11-05 Thread Arun Thomas
: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:42 AM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [collections] [PATCH] CompositeCollection class for Commons-Collections Arun Thomas wrote: The last comment suggests another possibly useful method: toList(), returning an aggregated collection

RE: Log interface should be loaded by loadClass method

2003-11-03 Thread Arun Thomas
Hmmm The difficulty here seems to be in that the proper use if not easy to understand, and that the thought in well thought out doesn't seem to be documented (at least I didn't see it after a quick glance). If someone can point the way to the mail threads that covered the thinking

RE: [lang] [PATCH] StringUtils.getLevenshteinDistance() fix for OutOfMemoryError when used with LONG strings

2003-10-23 Thread Arun Thomas
Might be worth including as a separate subclass of testcase then - anyone looking for quick runs can take it out of the test suite temporarily. -AMT -Original Message- From: Chas Emerick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 3:52 PM To: Jakarta Commons

RE: [BEANUTILS] Property Descriptor Visibility

2003-10-14 Thread Arun Thomas
Henning, While this might seem like a problem with the MethodUtils::getAccessibleMethod, it, in fact, reflects the reality of dynamic method invocation today (the behaviour is broken because these methods can be invoked directly, just not dynamically). When I first encountered this problem,

RE: [beanutils] some ideas

2003-10-07 Thread Arun Thomas
You're right Walking up the inheritance heirarchy only makes sense on the from class side. Walking DOWN the inheritance heirarchy would actually do well on the to class side I think, but, of course, that's much more difficult to do. In short, the result of the conversion must be the

RE: [collections] New Collection

2003-09-12 Thread Arun Thomas
You might want to take a look at org.apache.commons.collections.SequencedHashMap which combines, for the most part, the functions of list and map (insertElementAt()) is not available - how does one insert a key, when the value should be at a specific position? The transactional support is

RE: [collections] New Collection

2003-09-12 Thread Arun Thomas
). - Original Message - From: Arun Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jakarta Commons Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 12:04 PM Subject: RE: [collections] New Collection You might want to take a look at org.apache.commons.collections.SequencedHashMap which combines

MapUtils.debug/verbosePrint thread safety

2003-09-10 Thread Arun Thomas
I recently noticed that the current implementation of the debugPrint and verbosePrint methods in MapUtils is not thread safe - in fact, these are the only items that are not thread safe because the indentation state for the output is preserved in a static variable. I think it would be

RE: [collections] CollectionUtils.getCardinalityMap JavaDoc

2003-09-08 Thread Arun Thomas
I'm not sure if it makes sense to call it an entry that maps to null but consider that the the cardinal map returned by this function will be accessed in the following manner: Integer x = returnedMap.get(obj); That statement may just be pointing out that instead of returning Integer(0) for

RE: [all] [commons] Dependency diagrams

2003-08-28 Thread Arun Thomas
Neat to see, but something that might be interesting is to also differentiate between required runtime and compile time dependencies. -AMT On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 10:59 PM, J.Pietschmann wrote: Hi all, a first shot at a graphical representation of dependencies of commons

RE: [all] [commons] Dependency diagrams

2003-08-28 Thread Arun Thomas
Ignorance speaking What is transitive closure? -AMT -Original Message- From: J.Pietschmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 12:00 PM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [all] [commons] Dependency diagrams Arun Thomas wrote: Neat to see

RE: [all] [commons] Dependency diagrams

2003-08-28 Thread Arun Thomas
] Dependency diagrams Arun Thomas wrote: Neat to see, but something that might be interesting is to also differentiate between required runtime and compile time dependencies. The first diagram shows compile time dependencies. Run time dependencies would be the transitive closure. I think

Recall: [all] [commons] Dependency diagrams

2003-08-28 Thread Arun Thomas
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[lang] nIndexOf/ordinalIndexOf

2003-08-26 Thread Arun Thomas
I've got to say that I like the parallelism with the other methods. For what it's worth, I like: ordinalIndexOf(String str, String searchStr, int ordinal) -AMT -Original Message- From: Gary Gregory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 11:27 PM To: 'Jakarta Commons

RE: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 22664] - Tests for dependent validators [PATCH]

2003-08-26 Thread Arun Thomas
Weird, Parser didn't complain when it read the xml. Anyway, thanks for fixing that -AMT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 8:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 22664] - Tests for dependent

[validator] Release 1.1.0

2003-08-22 Thread Arun Thomas
I noticed that a vote is ongoing for release of validator. FYI, http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dtds/validator_1_1.dtd should be updated to the version of the dtd currently in CVS. I don't know if this is a manual process, or something that happens automatically with the release? -AMT

RE: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 20740] - [PATCH] Map.debugPrint assume key is string.

2003-08-22 Thread Arun Thomas
New patch with test cases submitted to bugzilla! -AMT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 20740] - [PATCH] Map.debugPrint assume key is string. DO NOT REPLY TO

RE: [LANG] Do we have a safeToString() ?

2003-08-14 Thread Arun Thomas
If so, WHY? Why not use String.valueOf(Object obj)? Not particularly more convenient is it? -AMT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 9:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LANG] Do we have a

RE: JNDI service providers (in-memory / WebDAV)

2003-08-14 Thread Arun Thomas
I believe that Tyrex includes an in-memory JNDI service provider. http://tyrex.sourceforge.net/naming.html#MemoryContext -AMT -Original Message- From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 6:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Alex Karasulu Subject: JNDI

RE: [combo] Commons Core release?

2003-08-14 Thread Arun Thomas
Interesting Since I started using eclipse, I've come very much to like the eclipse mechanism of releasing updates to modules. It's possible to publish releases via the web and a pre-specified format (site.xml) announcing what releases are available and the URL's by which they can be

RE: using struts validator framework in java swing app

2003-08-14 Thread Arun Thomas
Unfortunately, using validator outside struts means that although it continues to successfully report validation success or failure, the entire error message generating framework is unavailable. Struts merges the validator framework with additional code which actually handles all the lookups

RE: [lang] DEVELOPERS-GUIDE.html

2003-08-04 Thread Arun Thomas
Chuck, I would be pretty keen on figuring out a better approach to utility classes as well (RBD's suggestion deferring the decision between singleton and booch utility to the user seems interesting.) I think, however, that the 3rd option will still not be a possibility. Look back at thread

RE: [io][vote] FileUtils: decision on style

2003-07-30 Thread Arun Thomas
difference. Also, why would you ever need to extend non-instantiable classes? - Neil --- Michael Heuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, David Graham wrote: --- Arun Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm From the last three notes - I think I understand clearly

RE: [io][vote] FileUtils: decision on style

2003-07-29 Thread Arun Thomas
methods? Cheers, -AMT -Original Message- From: David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 11:44 AM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: RE: [io][vote] FileUtils: decision on style --- Arun Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone expound

RE: [io][vote] FileUtils: decision on style

2003-07-29 Thread Arun Thomas
12:30 PM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: RE: [io][vote] FileUtils: decision on style --- Arun Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm From the last three notes - I think I understand clearly the motivation for requiring the public no-arg constructor, but I still don't understand

RE: [lang] DEVELOPERS-GUIDE.html

2003-07-29 Thread Arun Thomas
So this saves one import for every user of Ustring that needs to use a function currently available in StringUtils? Not meaning to be sarcastic at all - it just seems that this is the only savings you get. Even the documentation lookup will probably have to go to the JavaDoc for StringUtils?

RE: [io][vote] FileUtils: decision on style

2003-07-29 Thread Arun Thomas
, 29 Jul 2003, David Graham wrote: --- Arun Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm From the last three notes - I think I understand clearly the motivation for requiring the public no-arg constructor, but I still don't understand the reasoning behind the need for avoiding final

RE: [lang][io] final classes

2003-07-29 Thread Arun Thomas
. If they abuse that power then fine. (And please note, that anything applying to [lang] applies equally to [io] as far as XxxxUtils goes) Stephen - Original Message - From: Arun Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] So this saves one import for every user of Ustring that needs to use a function currently

[validator][digester] Compressed parsing exception....

2003-07-16 Thread Arun Thomas
Folks, I'm writing because I'm running across a really strange bug which I cannot, for the life of me figure out. Or rather, I know what's causing it, but I'm not sure why: I'm getting an exception when parsing an xml file (validation.xml) obtained as an input stream from the classpath

RE: cvs commit: jakarta-commons/beanutils/src/test/org/apache/commons/beanutils PropertyUtilsTestCase.java TestBean.java

2003-07-10 Thread Arun Thomas
-Original Message- From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 7:20 PM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: RE: cvs commit: jakarta-commons/beanutils/src/test/org/apache/commons/beanutils PropertyUtilsTestCase.java TestBean.java ...

RE: cvs commit: jakarta-commons/beanutils/src/test/org/apache/commons/beanutils PropertyUtilsTestCase.java TestBean.java

2003-07-09 Thread Arun Thomas
I'm confused as to what part of Section 8.3.1 of the Java Beans spec defines this behaviour. I'm looking at version 1.01 - is there a newer revision? quote By default, we use design patterns to locate properties by looking for methods of the form: public PropertyType get PropertyName();

RE: Java Bean Specification: PropertyUtilsTestCase.java TestBean.java

2003-07-09 Thread Arun Thomas
I'm confused as to what part of Section 8.3.1 of the Java Beans spec defines this behaviour. I'm looking at version 1.01 - is there a newer revision? quote By default, we use design patterns to locate properties by looking for methods of the form: public PropertyType get PropertyName();