[Aglets-developer] The Project

[Robert B. <rbergstrom@iSolutionsCorp.com>]

Hello:

This is my understanding as to the state of the current codebase.  My
information may be incomplete or incorrect, so please contribute anything
that you know.

There are two versions of the ASDK in CVS -- aglets1_1 and aglets1_2.  This
code has spawned three "releases".  What's referred to as 1.1B3 is the
aglets1_1 codebase which was the last official release from IBM before
opening the source.  This code runs on JDK 1.1.8 and is probably the most
stable version (relatively speaking).  There is another "release" of the 1.1
codebase with modifications to compile under Java 2.  Note, that this is
/not/ what is in the aglets1_2 codebase.  This version is maintained by
Kovalan Muniandy at http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~muniandy/agletsd-j2/.
Finally, there is the aglets1_2 codebase which I believe was IBM's next
version of aglets.  It compiles under Java 2 (I use 1.3), and the biggest
change is that it uses the security features of Java 2 (the keystore for
example).  This version has some rough edges but it does run. :)

That summarizes what I know about the project to date.  The obvious next
question is where do we go from here?  There has been some interest in a
version of aglets which will run on PDA's.  I'd personally like to see the
aglets1_2 codebase brought up to speed -- but that's a different post.

Thoughts?

// RAB