Re: Patch: java.beans

[Warren Levy <warrenl at cygnus dot com>]

On Mon, 1 May 2000, Jeff Sturm wrote:

> Warren Levy wrote:
> > I'm ready to check in the java.beans from Classpath to the sourceware
> > libgcj.  It is missing java.beans.Beans.instantiate for the time being
> > (until I fold in the Classpath seraialization code).
> 
> Is there any reason this patch should not be committed at this time
> (besides the namespace issue)?  I've been using it in my workspace for a
> time.

You're right, this should be done.  I do want to make one change first as
I had anticipated a gnu namespace change (bad move on my part).  I'll
change it from how it was in the patch I sent (so it matches the Classpath
code).  If/when classes in the gnu namespace are relocated by Classpath,
I'll mirror that in sourceware to maintain consistency and minimize
maintenance issues.

I'll also be able to check in the serialization code too.  I should
be able to do all this later this week or over the weekend.

> One side effect of importing java.beans is that libgcjawt.so must be
> linked into libgcj.so.  That might not be desirable due to the
> additional size.  It might be worth creating a libgcjbeans.so as well.

I'll see what makes sense too about breaking out awt, beans, etc. as
separate *.so from libgcj.so.  If anyone feels strongly one way or the
other, please send me your input.

Thanks for the reminder about all this.
--warrenl