Hi, Harmony people! I want to participate in Google Summer Of Code 2008 as a student, and I have a project in mind, which can be benefitial for Harmony.
I will be happy to complete Class Library up 100% compatibility with java6. Harmony is claimed to have "near 100%" completeness. As far as I rememeber, this claim has been made for the last 2 years. It's great to have such a high level of comleteness, but the question arises "why not 100%?". As far as I know, Harmony evangelists all over the world often face such a tough question. So, I want to have the following fun this summer: 1. Identify what classes and methods are unimplemented in comparison with Java 6 documentation 2. implement them :) There is a project of enabling FreeCol in the list of proposed projects. Of course, I will have to collaborate with the guy engaged in this project when it comes to java.image.io classes. I will be glad to hear from Harmony gurus in this list whether it is possible to comlete class library in 3 months and who is willing to be the mentor for such a project, P.S. About myself: I run for Master's degree in Physics in Novosibirsk State Unoversity. I have some experience in Java and C++. I contributed to Harmony VM JIT-compiler: powerful optimization called "operator strengh reduction"[1] and some perfomance-improving fixes. I am now working on the vectorization support for Harmony jit compiler. I hope to have it done this spring. [1]https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-5090 -- Maksim
