Not really WO-specific, but I thought people might find use in this:
Last weekend I ported ruby's natural language date parser "Chronic"
to Java. If anyone is interested, it's located at https://
jchronic.dev.java.net/ . It's released under the same license as
chronic (MIT) and the source and binary jar are available under the
Documents & Files section. The original didn't support anything
other than English, so right now the Java one inherits these same
limitations. If there is interest, I would need some support on
other languages, but it is possible to do. It's also a not-1.0 port
of a not-1.0 library :), so it will have some issues, but it's kind
of a cool little library the original guy wrote.
Also, it's written with 1.5 as I am now spoiled and can never go back.
If you want to read the original ruby docs on it, you can go to
http://chronic.rubyforge.org/ .
For those who are curious, the Java version is about about 12% more
code than the Ruby version (when you count "real" code lines -- I
count semicolons and open curlies in Java to get that, and I don't
recall what I used on Ruby, but I tried to be fair), and the Java
version runs between 2 and 3 times faster than the Ruby version.
ms
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