Re: GlazedList GWT

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> James, Holger, thanks for the encouragement..  Just one final question about
> packaging and publish location.  Do you want me to package as
> ca.odell.glazedgwt as i suggested, or just create a branch without the
> Glazed naming.  I can definitely use my own companies name in the packaging
> (com.tradecard), if you would prefer.  Also if the latter, do you have any
> issue with me identifying it as "GlazedLists"?   I would just post it on
> code.google.com, and i'd love to call it GlazedListsGWT, but if you would
> prefer i not use that name, that is ok with me.
>
> I'll try to put something together in the next few days (just started the
> merge with google-collections-gwt)..  just need to do a bit of repackaging.
>
> tom.
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> James Lemieux wrote:
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>> Hey Tom,
>>
>>    First, major kudos to you for this undertaking. About 2ish years ago I
>> worked on a GWT project and naturally would have wanted GL there too, but
>> was daunted by the lack of support at that time for many classes from the
>> JDK that we use within the current GL core implementation. Jesse and I
>> discussed what would be required to integrate with GWT at that time, and
>> our
>> cursory decision was that we didn't think we could support GWT as "just
>> another GL extension" directly in the Glazed Lists project, though this
>> would be the ideal.
>>
>>    Another subtle difference that pulls us toward a total fork is the
>> large
>> difference in performance characteristics between Javascript's sandbox and
>> JVMs. I can imagine it being extremely difficult to cater to those
>> different
>> beasts from a single code base, and adding abstractions for the sake of
>> speed increases the "mental weight" of the implementation.
>>
>>    And it would suck to have the vestigial getReadWriteLock() on EventList
>> in a single-threaded environment...
>>
>>    As for blessings from "the GL project" before publishing a branch...
>> please... go forth and prosper. Our selection of the LGPL and MPL is only
>> to
>> ensure that derivative works are available to the community, whether from
>> private money-making companies or other open projects, and no one forks GL
>> needlessly. A GWT "fork" is a very fair example of a reason to fork GL.
>>
>>    So please, go ahead with our blessing and don't hesitate to ask us
>> about
>> peculiarities you find! We'll help you in any way we can.
>>
>> James
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Thomas Sorgie <tsorgie@...> wrote:
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>>>
>>> Endre,
>>>
>>> I agree, i'm pretty excited about getting to use GL in GWT too.  I
>>> haven't
>>> posted the code yet, mostly because i want to get some blessings, and
>>> suggestions for change, from these guys before publishing a branch of
>>> their
>>> library.
>>>
>>> As i said, as of now, my version is a severe subset of the main GL branch
>>> (some good, some just incomplete).  I also have had to make modifications
>>> in
>>> most of their core objects (though the complex algorithmic stuff ported
>>> with
>>> minimal mods).  The only way to publish it in its current state would be
>>> to
>>> repackage the whole thing.  Ultimately i think that that will need to
>>> happen, but there is definitely an argument for trying to abstract and
>>> reuse
>>> the elements of the base library that require minimal change to run in
>>> GWT.
>>>
>>> tom.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Endre Stølsvik-8 wrote:
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 18:03, Thomas Sorgie <tsorgie@...> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hey guys,
>>> >>
>>> >> I've put together a branch of GL which runs on GWT.  I reduced the
>>> >> functionality quite a bit to the things that i think are applicable to
>>> >> the
>>> >> GWT environment (and what i needed there).
>>> >
>>> > I would just want to say that I personally find this awesome! Thanks!
>>> >
>>> > I wouldn't be surprised if Jesse also loves it! (He's the GL initiator
>>> > and a Googler and is apparently a part of the Google Collection bunch
>>> > (and Guice) - just FYI in case you don't study all list traffic - and
>>> > he talked about this exact scenario (porting to GWT and integrating
>>> > with Google Collections) some months ago)
>>> >
>>> > Is the code available somewhere?
>>> >
>>> > Endre.
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