Re: Kaffe's RMI library

[Brian Jones]

Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:

> >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Fisher <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Paul>     KAFFE   Transvirtual Technologies, Inc. 2000-10-20
> Paul>     Assigns Kaffe RMI Library and future changes submitted to the FSF.
> Paul>     (Tim Wilkinson)
> 
> I spent some time today looking at the Kaffe RMI.
> I looked in kaffe 1.0.6, which is the most recent source I found online.
> If there's something newer, please tell me.
> 
> First, this code relies on some implementation classes in the `kaffe'
> namespace.  I assume these are covered by the assignment.
> 
> For Classpath do we want to rename these?  We could put them in
> gnu.java.rmi or gnu.classpath.java.rmi -- the former is how we do
> similar things right now.  My preference would be the first, on the
> basis of conformity.

I suggested we probably should have done the latter to begin
with... but it doesn't matter right now.  For conformity, I would
prefer the gnu.java.rmi version as well.

> Also the Kaffe RMI occasionally does this:
> 
>     throw new kaffe.util.NotImplemented();
> 
> This is a subclass of Error.
> I think we could replace this either with Error("not implemented")
> or with VirtualMachineError (though that is a stretch).

I see no problem with Error(String) either.

Brian
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Brian Jones <address@hidden>