Re: [Jmdns-discuss] jmdns client only

[Joshua C. <jp...@ki...>]

On Dec 18, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Rick Blair wrote:
>>> Looks like the spec has moved on a bit since JmDNS was first  
>>> written.  A refresh is long over due.   Would you care to help in  
>>> a refactor?
>> Sure I can help a bit.  I don't have too much time to spend on it,  
>> but I think I have enough to be helpful.  What about involving  
>> Erik Hetzner?  He seems to be maintaining a branch including the  
>> patches submitted on this list:
>> https://code.launchpad.net/~ehetzner/jmdns/egh
>>
>> Scott
>> <https://code.launchpad.net/%7Eehetzner>
>
> I have patches from Josh on a local branch. I dont think I have  
> Erik's.  I have not had time to run against the latest Bonjour test  
> suite from apple.
>
> Eric and Josh are you up to separating SD from mDNS?

I think there are some serious structural problems with JmDNS, and I  
think separating SD from mDNS would help quite a bit. It would  
certainly make the static DNS query I hacked in much more elegant.

Unfortunately, I probably won't be able to help very actively with  
such a project, although I would be more than happy to help in small  
ways and with testing and bug fixing.

I mentioned once an abstraction layer I'm using on top of  
mDNSResponder's Java interface and JMDNS to allow my application to  
switch between them on the fly. Its far from perfect, but if I can  
get approval to release that to JmDNS, perhaps it would give you some  
good ideas.

I'll ask about it.

-- 
Joshua ChaitinPollak
Software Engineer
Kiva Systems, Inc.