[mapguide-users] Java enhancements

Robert Bray rbray at robertbray.net
Thu Mar 8 16:22:56 EST 2007


Joel,

The person taking this on would need to investigate this further, but I 
think it would be possible to simply generate new "enhanced" and old 
"crufty" Java wrappers. That might be the best solution to the 
compatibility issue.

Bob

Joel Carranza wrote:
> Jason,
> 
> Fantastic idea. I sure wish they had Google Summer of Code when I was a 
> student. Regarding my comment about "better-informed designed decisions" 
> : The info I put in my ticket is everything I see (for now), but I 
> haven't dealt with the whole API. I will update the ticket as I run 
> across anything else which seems weird.
> 
> Joel
> 
> Jason Birch wrote:
>> Hi Joel,
>>  
>> We're going to be putting SWIG enhancements for Java in as one of our Google Summer of Code project ideas.  If it gets accepted, your input will really be appreciated:
>>  
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/GoogleSoC2007 <http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/GoogleSoC2007> 
>>  
>> If there are any students lurking on this list with nothing to do this summer, I fully expect all of you to apply :)
>>  
>> Thanks for letting me know about the broken links.  They should be working now.  Between development and launch we had a change in the canonical URL for that site, and they got missed.
>>  
>> You said:  "A couple of better-informed design decisions need to be made on how the Java API should look, and these decisions should be done quickly, so that java developers can know what to expect."
>>  
>> Is this apart from what you put into the ticket?  Please add any additional info to the ticket.
>>  
>> If breaking backwards compatibility at this point is necessary to make a more sane Java environment, I personally wouldn't be entirely opposed to it, but I'd really want to be sure that it is necessary first.
>>  
>> Thanks,
>> Jason
>>  
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