Thomas Down wrote:
>
> Nic Ferrier wrote:
> >
> > Is anyone working on Collections for Java 2?
>
> Looking at:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/status.html
>
> It says that there's a complete 1.2 implementation done. I haven't had
> a chance to give it a good hammering, but I did look through the code a
> while back and it all seems to be there.
I wrote a large part of the Collections stuff currently in Classpath. I
haven't tested it thoroughly because of "real job" commitments. Other
people contributed classes like Hashtable, the various Map stuff and
Vector. I can't comment for those classes, but the stuff that I wrote is
essentially feature-complete, but a number of areas lack doc-comments
and like I said, none is really tested. The other area that needs work
is serialization-compatibility with Sun. I think that in terms of
cost/benefit ratio, Collections may be one of the most worthwhile places
to get this working... The serialization is pretty well-specced and
simple, and I have a feeling that they'll be among the most-serialized
classes.
If you have any questions about the code, I'll be happy to answer as
best I can, despite work commitments.
Thanks for offering to help out... It's great to see interest in the
project.
Stuart.
