on 8/8/2000 9:05 AM, "Claude Duguay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I recently found myself addressing a problem I have by writing the
> beginnings of what increasingly resembled ECS. So close was the parallel
> that much of the code I wrote was identical (except for the naming) in
> structure. I've now switched over to ECS and had some observations.
> 
> 1) The use of HtmlColors with strings is outside what I would have expected
> in a Java interface. I think facilitating the use of Java Color objects is
> desirable and my approach would have been to declare the constants as Color
> instances with standard use of Color arguments in the accessors. Here's some
> code to translate between Color and HtmlColor representations:

cool. As Stephan said, send a patch. There is a great book about how to use
CVS at:

<http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/>

There is instructions for grabbing ECS from CVS here:

<http://java.apache.org/main/cvs.html>

> 2) I saw notes asking whether anyone was willing to contribute a regular
> expression filter class. I recently published (in JavaPro Magazine) a Match
> interface with support for regular expressions, standard wildcards, the
> 'like' algorithm and soundex. I'd be willing to contribute this code to the
> project if you are interested.

-1. 

Check out:

<http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/>

If anything, integrate that. :-)

> Let me know what you think. I don't know who's lead or support in the group,
> so if you can clarify that in your message, I'd be grateful. Thanks.

Stephan and I are the lead people.

-jon



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