Re: [FreeMarker-user] Dependeny on javax.swing
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From: Daniel D. <dd...@fr...> - 2009-12-28 13:01:55
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Monday, December 28, 2009, 12:07:31 PM, Guo Du wrote: > 2009/12/28 Daniel Dekany <dd...@fr...>: >>> javax.swing.tree.*, that'd be a start. As I said, something similar [snip] >> So can that be worked around in FreeMarker (and of so, with how much > > I have two concern for work around javax.swing.tree.* package reference. Note that above I referred to the reflection issue. > 1. Backword compatibility, we don't want break the stable release > stream in 2.3.X. Even NORMAL freemarker usecase won't be involved with > the swing. Since Java language is quite static (which I like in general but these are the situations where it clearly backfires), the only backward-compatible work-around I can imagine is to create a separate release for each FreeMarker version that specifically targets GWE. But that's not that easy for the *users* as it may sound, as components that were not written specifically for GWE may pull in "plain" FreeMarker via automated dependency management (Maven, OSGi, etc.). I know, at least ideally that can be overridden, but I guess the way we upset the least number of users is by breaking the backward compatibly promise in this case, and blame Google. > 2. The simple/safe way to get away from javax.swing.tree.* is to > duplicate the used classes/interface insides freemarker such as > freemarker.core.tree. It may have copyright concern to the source > code. I didn't look into this, but most certainly we will have to re-write these from scratch, only by looking at the javax.swing Java docs. > P.S. There are only 4 direct reference in freemarker 2.3.15, so not a > big deal to just copy them to freemarker :) > ./freemarker/template/Template.java:57: import javax.swing.tree.TreePath; > ./freemarker/core/FreeMarkerTree.java:56: import javax.swing.JTree; > ./freemarker/core/FreeMarkerTree.java:57: import > javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeModel; > ./freemarker/core/TemplateElement.java:57: import javax.swing.tree.TreeNode; > > -Guo > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > FreeMarker-user mailing list > Fre...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freemarker-user > -- Best regards, Daniel Dekany |