Am 05.03.2012 19:30, schrieb Marcel Offermans:
On Mar 5, 2012, at 18:12 PM, Richard S. Hall wrote:
One of first things I came across are the int constants in
org.apache.felix.example.servicebased.host.ShapeTracker. If Java 5 features are
allowed, I would replace that by an enum.
What do you think?
Technically, I'm not against it, but this is one of the tradeoffs, since OSGi
was designed to work for embedded devices, it meant being stuck on the
older/smaller JVMs. So, using these features immediately limits the
applicability of examples for people in this area. However, at this point, I'm
not sure how many people are really using it in this area anymore, so it may or
may not matter.
Because this example uses Swing anyway, I don't see a big downside in this
case. There are not that many embedded devices that support Swing, but not Java
5, at least that I know of.
Okay, so if everybody agrees I'd like to update the samples source code
to use Java 5 features. Do you have to vote about that? Or can we just
start with that?
One additional suggestion would be to have an HTML5+JS version of this example,
which is much easier to demo in modern web environments.
That sounds like a great idea! I'd like to help with that, once I'm
finished with the SimpleShape example.
Greetings, Marcel
