William Tipton wrote:
> I looked over much of the code last night and am certainly impressed with
> not only the sheer amount of code written but also the quality of the code
> as well as its documentation. This is definitly a project to which I'd
> love to contribute, but I have a few questions first.
Thanks! We are always looking for contributions.
> - My university is only teaching Java throughout our CS program now, and I
> was told by one teaching assistant that in the future we may all be asked
> to sign NDAs from Sun. In the even that this happened and there was
> nothing I could do, this would make it so that I would have to
> stop work on the Classpath project, correct?
It wouldn't be good. I don't see why your school would force you to sign
Sun's NDA though. If there is some class that requires seeing Sun's source,
I would ask if you could do the equivalent project based on free software
sources such as Japhar and Classpath.
> - I browsed through the archives of this mailing list and found somewhat
> varying opinions of the importance of implementing Java 1.2, and so I am
> curious as to what the stance here is on its immediate importance to the
> project.
I think at this point we are all targeting Java 1.2. Certainly 1.1
compliance is a must, but I am personally doing as much 1.2 as I can.
> - This is probably going to make somebody laugh, but in fifteen words
> or less :), what is JVMDI?
Java Virtual Machine Debugger Interface. It is a set of hooks for
debuggers.
> - Silly question that probably doesn't belong here, but I'll throw it in
> anyway;) -- Japhar out of CVS is always telling me that it can't run the
> classes I specify: that it cannot find them. i.e. 'japhar MyClass'
> produces a ClassNotFoundException even if I'm standing in that
> directory... I RTFM'd quite a few times but didn't come up with
> anything. Anyway...
Sun's java interpreter puts the current directory in the CLASSPATH by
default. I don't believe Japhar does. You'll need to make sure "." is in
your CLASSPATH before running the app.
> Thank you very much for taking your time to answer any of these
> questions. I'm going to begin familiarizing myself a lot more with the
> current codebase; I hope to add as much as I can to this project.
That would be great. Just let us know what areas you plan to work on. And
be sure to read the Hacker's Guide on the web site.
Hope this answers your questions and thanks for writing.
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Aaron M. Renn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/
