Aaron M. Renn wrote:
> Yes, I took a glance through the CORBA stuff and it looks pretty scary.
I was looking around, and jacORB is a LGPL'ed ORB that implements much of the spec.
I'll take a look at the source at some point and if it looks promising perhaps the
author would be agreeable to using it for $classpath...
> > Depending on how much time I can eke out of my week, java.text could be done in
> > some half-assed fashion in a week or two.
>
> Wow. That would be superb. I wish I coded that fast. Don't underestimate
> the task, though. Merely getting locale specific date formats/parsing is
> going to be painful. Though the only thing we really need to support for
> right now is the US locale. I would look to leverage the code in glibc for
> this, even if it means we have to make native calls instead of a pure Java
> solution.
Right, thus the "half-assed" above, implying U.S. only. I haven't worked much with
the i18n stuff, but I guess we could just come up with a good scheme to have a
properties file per locale (any brilliant ideas, anyone?)
Wes
