On Dec 26, 2006, at 10:13 PM, Zakharov, Vasily M wrote:
>
> I wonder how complex a task could adding these classes be?
> They're not interfaces or fully-abstracts, they do some actual
> conversion, as one may guess from these links:
> http://icu.sourceforge.net/apiref/icu4jni/com/ibm/icu4jni/
> converters/Byt
> eToCharConverterICU.html
> http://icu.sourceforge.net/apiref/icu4jni/com/ibm/icu4jni/
> converters/Cha
> rToByteConverterICU.html
>
> From the other point of view, Harmony never had these classes,
and was
> still able to run Eclipse and whatever else, so probably they're
> not so
> much needed. Can we ask ICU guys what those classes could be really
> needed for?
>
> And by the way, they're Deprecated.
But people probably still use them.
>
> Probably we could add stubs or something like that to suncompat,
that
> would throw new
> UnsupportedOperationException("sun.io.ByteToCharConverter is
> deprecated
> and not supported") on each method call? That's not much pain
and if
> someone ever needs them, it's anyway better than
NoClassDefFoundError,
> isn't it?
No really - your app still falls over and dies.
geir
>
> Vasily
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paulex Yang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 4:29 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [jira] Created: (HARMONY-2862) [classlib]
[suncompat] ICU
> references sun.io classes that are absent
>
> Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 26, 2006, at 8:12 PM, Paulex Yang wrote:
>>
>>> Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>>>> ROTFL
>>>>
>>>> Who makes this library? IBM? :)
>>>>
>>>> I think we need to add these classes to our suncompat package...
>>>>
>>>> geir
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 25, 2006, at 8:20 PM, Zakharov, Vasily M wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder what must we do to this issue.
>>>>> Any opinions?
>>> AFAIK, these four classes in ICU4JNI are not used by Harmony's
>>> nio_char module, whatever directly or indirectly(i.e., you can
>>> remove
>
>>> these classes from ICU4JNI without affecting Harmony
functionality),
>>> and nio_char should be the only module which refers to
ICU4JNI, so I
>>> suppose they are not needed to be loaded?
>>
>> What if a users wanted to use this package on Harmony?
> I've no objection to add sun.io.CharToByteConverter to suncompat,
> because I guess this is one of the most used Sun JDK implementation
> classes, but I think we may have other options to deal with this
> ICU4JNI
>
> issue, for example, remove these four classes from our build if
legal,
> ICU4JNI is provided only in source codes, so we need to build it
> into a
> binary jar ourselves anyway.
>>
>> geir
>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Vasily
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Vasily Zakharov (JIRA) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 7:54 PM
>>>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>> Subject: [jira] Created: (HARMONY-2862) [classlib]
[suncompat] ICU
>>>>> references sun.io classes that are absent
>>>>>
>>>>> [classlib][suncompat] ICU references sun.io classes that are
>>>>> absent
>>>>>
------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> -
>>>>>
>>>>> Key: HARMONY-2862
>>>>> URL:
>>>>> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-2862
>>>>> Project: Harmony
>>>>> Issue Type: Bug
>>>>> Components: Classlib
>>>>> Reporter: Vasily Zakharov
>>>>> Priority: Minor
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> DRLVM bootclasspath contains icu4jni-3.4.jar, that contains 4
> classes
>>>>> that can't be loaded. These classes are:
>>>>>
>>>>> com.ibm.icu4jni.converters.ByteToCharConverterICU extends
>>>>> sun.io.ByteToCharConverter
>>>>> com.ibm.icu4jni.converters.ByteToCharGB18030 extends
>>>>> ByteToCharConverterICU
>>>>> com.ibm.icu4jni.converters.CharToByteConverterICU extends
>>>>> sun.io.CharToByteConverter
>>>>> com.ibm.icu4jni.converters.CharToByteGB18030 extends
>>>>> CharToByteConverterICU
>>>>>
>>>>> These classes can't be loaded because they extend classes from
> sun.io
>>>>> package that are not available in Harmony classlib.
>>>>>
>>>>> There're two ways to resolve this issue:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Create stubs for sun.io.ByteToCharConverterICU and
>>>>> sun.io.CharToByteConverter in suncompat module.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. Consider the four classes mentioned above non-needed for
>>>>> Harmony
>>>>> operation and close this issue as Won't Fix.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --Paulex Yang
>>> China Software Development Lab
>>> IBM
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Paulex Yang
> China Software Development Lab
> IBM
