Hi Tim, > Sounds good to me. Let's see if anyone else is interested.
Should we start a separate thread with a more obvious title? > You spurred me into committing the patch I was sat on to reduce the > footprint of the NIO character converters, by making the native > implementations optional. You can now delete the 1.5Mb hyniochar > library and we'll fall back to doing the conversions in Java code. > > I'm sure there are more examples like this where we can have the best of > both worlds for 'big' server and 'small' embedded sets of libraries. In fact JavaME CDC/FP doesn't include java.nio, with the result that I regularly have to patch code that is using java.nio just to do simple byte<->char conversions. But in other respects this is a good example - for a large class of applications (those which make only incidental use of char conversion) the java-only library is perfectly adequate and saves 1.5 MB (handy if your platform only has 8 MB of ROM!). Another area I would like to look at is Locale - last time I looked Harmony's Calendar was relying on a 6 MB library to handle Locale-related stuff, it could be interesting to have a lightweight alternative. Best regards Chris -- Chris Gray /k/ Embedded Java Solutions BE0503765045 Embedded & Mobile Java, OSGi http://www.k-embedded-java.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] +32 3 216 0369 Skype: k.embedded.chris
