Egor, My assumption is that these modules are to be included as is into someone's Java 6 build.
Thanks! On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Egor Pasko <[email protected]> wrote: > On the 0x5A0 day of Apache Harmony Tim Ellison wrote: >> Last week, in the lessons learned thread, we talked about having a >> reduced footprint runtime delivery based upon our Java 6 branch [1]. >> >> The goal would be to get exposure of the Java 6 code in a form that is >> still useful to a wide class of (headless) programs. Using Harmony's >> modular architecture we can quite easily deliver on the Java 6 modules >> that are further developed at the moment, with plans to back-fill the >> other modules as they become available. >> >> Here's a strawman proposal about what I think should be in the "Harmony >> Select" build: >> >> Included >> ANNOTATION ARCHIVE AUTH >> BEANS CONCURRENT CRYPTO >> JNDI INSTRUMENT LANG-MANAGEMENT >> LOGGING LUNI MATH >> NIO NIO_CHAR PACK200 >> PREFS REGEX SECURITY >> SQL TEXT XML >> X-NET >> >> >> Which means the following modules would be left out: >> ACCESSIBILITY APPLET AWT >> IMAGEIO ORB PRINT >> RMI SOUND SWING >> X_MGT >> >> >> I chose the above lists somewhat arbitrarily based upon the Java 5 build >> content. I haven't listed some modules we might want to include that >> are Java 6 specific (e.g. JAXB). >> >> Discuss :-) >> - Can you imagine paring down the 'Included' list any further? >> - What is missing from the list that must be there to make it useful? > > Is this to minimize download size? Or the first step towards a > packaging system? What is the estimate download size in your proposal? > > What is the target audience? Trying to imagine someone saying "with a > 5 MB download I am so happy to have headless java" ... and .. I should > say I do not know many people who would say that. Let's assume this is > just me, a side effect of being happy today :) > > -- > Egor Pasko > > -- With best regards / с наилучшими пожеланиями, Alexei Fedotov / Алексей Федотов, http://www.telecom-express.ru/ http://people.apache.org/~aaf/ http://harmony.apache.org/ http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/
