On 05/09/07, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roland Getty wrote: > > I just checked the latest release of Harmony and also the latest SVN. The > > support for pack200 seems still very incomplete. The actual "packing" seem > > not implemented yet at all, the "unpacking" doesn't work yet. > > That's right. We figured that unpacking existing archives would be the > logical first step, but it is early 'work in progress' at this stage, > and the spec takes a while to understand. > > > I would like to get in touch with the people involved implementing this part > > of Harmony to find out if I could help. > > Great. The work was started by Alex, and Sian has recently picked up > the baton and is continuing the work. I'm sure your help will be very > much appreciated.
Yeah, I dropped the ball somewhat in that I had a bunch of other things and never really had time to pick this up. I hope Sian will be able to make a bit of progress on it, and I'm happy to help out with the understanding where I can. > > 2. Will Harmony's pack200 support be implemented in 100% Java or are > > native method calls via JNI necessary? > > The idea is to write it all in Java. Yeah, there's no real need for any JNI code, and in any case, there's not an open binary implementation either. > > 3. Do you know of an alternative 100% Java implementation of pack200? > > I hear that Sun may have one ;-) but beyond that I don't know of any. No, I don't believe there are any. I was approached by Classlib to share the implementation when I first started so they didn't have one at the time, and in a few e-mails I sent back to the spec leads clarifying the spec, I was given the impression that there wasn't many competing implementations. Alex.
