Great Stuff Mr TC. :)
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 00:43, Torsten Curdt wrote:
> ...at least in Germany we celebrate the 6th of Dec
> with little presents.
>
> Well, I finished my little present for you guys just in
> time (about an hour ago). Ladies and gentleman:
>
> ...we have auto-compiling javaflow!!
>
> My idea was to build a little nikolaus-flow application.
> ...but time did run out and I still want to polish some
> things before I commit it to 2.1. ...but since I am
> excited I wanted to share it with you guys.
>
> I factored out the javaflow into a separate project
> that hopefully will find some friends over in the
> jakarta commons sandbox. ...same goes for the fully-
> no-worries-ASL-licensed compiling classloader.
>
> If someone really really bugs be I might be able
> to put a first zipped version online somewhere.
> Otherwise you will have to wait until I have a
> few spare minutes and the commit messages gives
> notice.
>
> As for the changes:
>
> The CompilingClassLoader now hooks in through
> the ParanoidServlet. It watches a repository for
> changes and compiles the classes accordingly.
> A special version, the ContinuationClassLoader,
> also rewrites the classes so they can be used
> as javaflow.
>
> Currently only compilation through the eclipse
> compiler is supported. (but this might change
> in the future) All classes are constructed and
> held in memory directly.
>
> I have no clue how this all will work out in
> the real world. But I am looking forward to
> getting some feedback.
>
> cheers
> --
> Torsten
