On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 5:35 PM, James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com> wrote:
> To be clear, I am not advocating this approach. I was merely trying to > illustrate what a nightmare such an endeavor would be. :) > > On Sunday, February 1, 2015, James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com> > wrote: > > > You would basically have to pick a canonical regex language if you want a > > facade and be able to swap the regex library out. Most of them are very > > similar but they are not the same. > I would not need a canonical regex language. This could be like JDBC where implementations vary. Gary > > > On Sunday, February 1, 2015, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com > > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','garydgreg...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > > > >> I think we'll need some clear performance advantages documented as well > as > >> any compatibility issues. > >> > >> This begs for a facade API IMO. I would not want to recode my app just > to > >> test one vs. the other, it should be pluggable. > >> > >> Gary > >> > >> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Benson Margulies < > bimargul...@gmail.com > >> > > >> wrote: > >> > >> > So, once upon a time, there was a regex library here. It was retired, > >> > presumably on the grounds that it was rendered obsolete by the JRE's > >> > native support. > >> > > >> > However, the JRE's regular expressions have a pretty severe problem; > >> > they have unbounded (or at least, very, very, bad) execution time for > >> > some combinations of data and regex. > >> > > >> > To cope with this, we ported the Henry Spencer regular expression > >> > library (as found in TCL) from C to Java. > >> > > >> > Thus: https://github.com/basis-technology-corp/tcl-regex-java > >> > > >> > Is anyone interested in this? Give or take the possible IP muddle of > >> > the original C Code, I could grant it easily. > >> > > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > >> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> -- > >> E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > >> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition > >> <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > >> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > >> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > >> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > >> Home: http://garygregory.com/ > >> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > >> > > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
