But im still curious do you think TCK checks if Harmony would have implementations of the deprecated methods or can we just spraingly and judging the needs implement a selected few of those.
On 5/11/05, Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dmitry Serebrennikov wrote: > > > So I guess those libraries being in Java is not a foregone conclusion > > either then? :) JNI is a mess though... > > The J2SE libraries require certain bits and pieces that would be pretty > pointless to reimplement in Java unless the target environment does not > provide them, and in that case you *might* be better off just porting a > different library from an environment to support it, rather than > rewriting the whole TCP/IP stack in Java, for example. That depends on > the environment you're targeting. > > Ideally, you want to have both options, of course. But in practice, most > people prefer to delegate at least some functionality to their target > environment, if any possible, by (re)using the facilities provided by > the OS or portability layers. > > To give you an example: Kaffe has an InetAddress implementation that can > use both the native os facilities, or delegate to the DNSJava libraries. > Which choice is better depends on the target environment. > > cheers, > dalibor topic > -- www.FaeLLe.com <http://www.FaeLLe.com>
