Tim, Alexei, thanks for your responses!
Well, now I see, that java5 completeness looks much better then java6
for a mere sudent project.
So the goal is "Implement missing classes and methods of java 5
including close to real world set of unit tests to verify the
results".
As for the mentorship - Alexei, could you please mentor me as far as
you are an expert in this area?
Other harmony gurus are also welcome.
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Alexei Fedotov
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maxim,
> This is great. Just imagine how it would look like in your resume:
> "For a master degree I created the first 100% complete open source
> Java implementation."
>
> As for drag and drop support [1] my investigation shows that
> completing it might be a bit trickier than one could expect, and could
> take a good amount of your time. Tim's report doesn't tell you that a
> good amount of availabile code is good for passing unit tests like the
> following one, or as good as dead. You may count on my advise in this
> area, though my advances [1] are pretty modest.
>
> try {
> myApiMethod(null);
> fail("NPE expected");
> } catch (NullPointerException) {
> /* expected */
> }
>
> [1] http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/Drag_and_Drop
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Maksim Ananjev
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > 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
> >
>
>
>
> --
> With best regards,
> Alexei
>
--
Maksim
