Re: Hotswap patch?

2009-09-15 Thread Thomas Wuerthinger
> The design of the hotswap patch is described in the PDF linked from > this page: > http://wikis.sun.com/display/mlvm/HotSwap > > I believe (under correction from you, Thomas!) that the patch is the > initial result of a research project that he did earlier this year at > JKU Linz, that he i

List of things I think we should talk

2009-09-15 Thread Rémi Forax
Here is the list of points that I think we should talk during the submit :) - method handle invocation - john: check == againt method type - fredrik: allow all conversions described in MHs.convertArguments() - rémi: allow all already existing JVM conversions parameter types cov

Re: [jsr-292-eg] updated RI code and API javadoc

2009-09-15 Thread Rémi Forax
Le 16/09/2009 02:56, John Rose a écrit : (Getting a round of EG work in before the Summit, so we'll have more to talk about. :-) [...] Regarding the LDC proposal, it came to my attention that JSR 294 (Modularity) is planning to add new ConstantPool types as well. This makes me very opposed t

Re: [jsr-292-eg] updated RI code and API javadoc

2009-09-15 Thread John Rose
(Getting a round of EG work in before the Summit, so we'll have more to talk about. :-) On Jul 15, 2009, at 6:02 AM, Daniel Heidinga wrote: Regarding keeping MHs.methodType, it seems cleaner to keep the MethodHandles factory and the MethodType factory separate. The static import concerns ca

Re: Hotswap patch?

2009-09-15 Thread John Rose
On Sep 13, 2009, at 12:22 AM, Patrick Wright wrote: I just saw that you pushed a changeset from Thomas Wuerthinger related to expanding hotswap--from the unit tests included, it looks pretty nice--add/remove fields and methods etc. Anything you can tell us about it, status etc? I didn't know any