Hi Martin, Great, expect a patch soon! Thanks for the guidance, I'll be careful with the points you noted.
best regards Paul On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Martin Veith <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Paul, > > nice to meet you, welcome to the Etch developer community! > > paul turner wrote on 2013-02-14: > > I can see that a lot of the java binding code is using pre-Java 5 > > threading idioms. > > Is that something I could change to improve reliability/ performance/ > > standards adherence? > > e.g. TodoManager and FreePool could use util.concurrent threadpools/ > > semaphores etc. > > These a lot of good stuff in util.concurrent that could make the unit > > tests more robust as well. > Refactoring the threading parts and using the new concurrent API sounds > good to me! If you need any help by building the source, just let us know! > Short note: at the moment the Etch Java-Binding works without any changes > on the Android platform which is used by some of our users. We should take > care that this compability is not lost by using some fancy Java mechanisms > which are not yet available on Android. But as far as I know all > util.concurrent is available also on Android. So feel free to start! > > Another Java-related task popping up in my mind is the refactoring of the > JUnit tests to become compatible with the newest JUnit version. At the > moment we have a hard dependency to JUnit 4.3.1. > > > > Normally I'd raise a Jira, but I don't have permissions to do that. > According to the permission scheme every user in the jira-user group > should have the permission to create an issue. Have you been logged in? > > > > > I do see that the Java bindings has not been changed in a few months, > > is it still an active project? > The Java-Binding is active and widly used. As the runtime is kind of > stable there haven't been any activity in this area the last few months, > but there is always room for improvement! > Our main focus of development the last months has been the C++ binding in > order to bring both the compiler and runtime to a stable status. > > I'm looking forward to see the first patch from you! > > Cheers, > Martin > > >
