RE: [Aglets-developer] The Project

[Daryl B. <Da...@sc...>]

Duh, okay Gregory please ignore my ignorant postings. :P  That's what I get
for reading my e-mails recent-first! Sorry for making a mess of this nice
list already -- I'll control my impulses from now on. :(

I have a question; is it necessary to continue the aglets1_1 code? We can
always keep it around as the "final IBM release"... but it seems to me that
this should be a CVS branch-tagged version, not a separate code-base. But I
suppose we have what we have, and will have to make do.

It seems like the obvious thing to do is to continue with aglets1_2; iron it
out and improve it as necessary.

As for other "versions" of aglets; this is another thing I want to ask
about. How exactly would we maintain all the different ports of aglets
effectively? Right now we are having trouble maintaining ports for Java 1
and 2! Maybe we could keep the "versions" limited to only different aglet
server implementations. Like a server for Java Micro-Edition or whatever.
These could then all be in the same codebase. [I'm just throwing this out,
feel free to object!]

It would also be nice to have other front-ends for an aglets server -- like
a JSP version of the AWT Tahiti (I haven't even looked at the code yet, I
don't know how hard this would be). Besides JSP, there could be Swing,
Applet, ... even proprietary ones like COM, KDE2, etc.

I second the motion of bringing the 1_2 codebase up to speed.

Daryl.


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Bergstrom [mailto:rbergstrom@iSolutionsCorp.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 11:41 AM
To: Aglets-Developer (E-mail)
Subject: [Aglets-developer] The Project


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