Re: J2ME classes in GNU classpath

[Alexandre Courbot]

Hello everyone,

> My favorite idea for turning GNU Classpath into a J2ME-like library
> would be to maintain a set of patches for converting the existing
> sources into the J2ME-like variant.
>
> I think the core classes aren't changing much anymore, so this isn't
> likely to be a huge maintenance job.  Maintaining the work as patches
> means it's also easy to see when something in the core classes has
> changed, forcing us to modify the patches.
>
> Ideally these patches would be checked into the GNU Classpath tree and a
> simple configure option would allow us to generate and build these
> alternative classes.

Having a J2ME variant of classpath would probably be something very useful to 
a lot of people. I'd be very glad to see this work succeed. Rupert, are you 
doing this work with embeddability in mind, or are you just interested in 
having a J2ME-compatible API?

Alex.
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Alexandre Courbot
PhD Student, LIFL/POPS
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