Re: Commons Time?

by Craig L Russell :: Rate this Message:

Hi Paul,

I might not understand the intent of the Commons Time stuff, but I
assumed that it's stuff that doesn't belong in the Time package itself
but builds on Time.

The idea of building it now while the JSR is still incomplete is to
provide some features now and not wait possibly years before the JSR
completes.

Craig

On Jul 7, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Paul Benedict wrote:

> Perhaps we're approaching this wrong. If we need common utilities for
> a JSR that's yet to be released, why not submit them straight to
> Stephen? I don't see why Apache should take this on while the JSR
> isn't finished.
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Craig L
> Russell<Craig.Russell@...> wrote:
>> Hi Henri,
>>
>> On Jul 7, 2009, at 12:16 AM, Henri Yandell wrote:
>>
>>> Until the new time stuff is in Java - I'm hesistant to have it in
>>> Lang. Yet I also don't want to do anymore work on Date based code in
>>> Lang :)
>>
>> It might be years before there's an update to Java SE (Sun/Oracle's
>> intentions regarding a new JSR in which 310 would go aren't at all
>> clear).
>>
>> If stuff in Lang is supposed to be in sync with Java SE, maybe not
>> good to
>> put Time in there.
>>
>> But I don't see any issues with a new Commons Time sub-project. I'd
>> hope
>> that Commons Time would move faster than Java SE anyway...
>>
>> Craig
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Paul
>>> Benedict<pbenedict@...> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'd rather see it in Commons Lang.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Henri Yandell<flamefew@...>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Pondering an idea of a Commons Time package that would sit on
>>>>> top of
>>>>> Joda Time/JSR 310. Lang's time package functionality would go in
>>>>> there, along with various enhancement ideas. The less core stuff
>>>>> than
>>>>> the JSR handles. Items like:
>>>>>
>>>>> * DateSequence, which would handle an open issue [LANG-347] for a
>>>>> 'addWeekDays' type item. Rather than adding and changing the
>>>>> date, you
>>>>> would walk along the sequence and get the date. Or something.
>>>>> * RandomDate [LANG-350]
>>>>> * DateFormatUtils
>>>>> * DateUtils (definitely rewritten on top of Joda)
>>>>> * DurationFormatUtils (likewise)
>>>>> * FastDateFormat
>>>>>
>>>>> Probably not StopWatch.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, pondering people's thoughts; plus any info Stephen might
>>>>> have
>>>>> on whether this is insane or not :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Hen
>>>>>
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Craig L Russell
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