Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>>> "James" == James Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > James> I am currently working on a tool that will generate class stubs > James> complete with javadoc from javadoc specifications. In your FAQ > James> a person mentioned that "Considering that new Java APIs come > James> out every week, it's going to be impossible to track > James> everything." I believe the tool I am developing may reduce > James> this development challenge for you substantially. > > James> Effectively this tool can generate class stubs (and > James> automatically implement setters and getters, assign final > James> variable values (using reflection) for the entire J2SE api in > James> about 20 minutes. As near as I can tell this tool does not > James> violate the SUN license (that I accepted when downloading the > James> spec) because effectively the software does exactly what people > James> would do were they implementing a clean room version of the > James> api. > > Hi James. > > First, most of the gcj discussion happens on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mailing list. For this tool, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list might be even > more appropriate. I've moved this to the latter. > > We'll probably need someone at the FSF, maybe RMS, to look at the > legality of this approach. I agree on principle it seems like it > should be legal, but my experience is that such principles rarely hold > where the law is concerned. > > I've CC'd RMS so he can tell us what the next step might be. It may > take him a while to reply, as he gets a lot of email, so please be > patient. > > James> After the Test Writer I plan on adding a code intergrator. > James> From my perspective the value of this would be that when a new > James> specification came out, the api converter could be run > James> providing a clean framework complete with all the new and > James> deprecated api's and then the intergrator could copy the > James> existing code from the current libgcj implementation into the > James> new framework. > > For existing classes, I think it would be more useful if the tool just > generated a stub for every new method or field.
If we could just get an accurate list of changes it would be useful. Nic _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
