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> On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Kevin A. Burton wrote:
Ug... sorry it took so long to reply...
>
> Thanks for the reply. I will get the package structure reorganized to
> jetspeed. What do you think of org.apache.jetspeed.icalendar? I will send
> it to you later today or early Sunday.
Sounds perfect.
> The overall plan goes like this. Implement iCalendar protocol for
> Jetspeed. It prioritizes like this.
>
> 1. Parse an iCalendar input stream. I have implemented one other protocol,
> the serialization protocol, before and found reading the protocol first
> was the way to go. We can test the protocol with the output from KDE
> calendar app.
Cool. I didn't know KDE had iCalendar support.
> 2. Map the resulting objects back to OPL in Turbine or to Castor, both if
> time permits.
This is an interesting scenario. I haven't had the time to compare both
solutions.
> 3. Write an Output Stream. At this point we can test the validity of our
> output stream by using our own parsing and the one that comes with the
> calendar app in KDE.
>
> 4. Work with the folks at KDE to give them the option to browse on line
> calendars.
I am trying to think of the best way to handle this. Probably through a
published document that specifies what output feeds the current JetSpeed
installation defines.
> 5. Write a calendaring client. Maybe this one is too ambitious and it
> might not fit in with the java.apache.org site, ie server applications.
>
> About the code, it is my first real clean room, no bs code. Some premises
> I am going on when writing it are to code for as many failures as possible
> and give descriptive messages. Another premise is to check for as many
> possibilities of failure as possible as early as possible. They seem to go
> hand in hand. I rarely let a java system class throw an exception. The
> error messages are too generic.
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Kevin A Burton
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"For evil to win is for good men to do nothing."
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