Re: [jmoney-devel] a couple of questions about recent changes

[Johann G. <jo...@gy...>]

Hi Nigel,

> 1. I was wondering why you replaced the jar file for the calendar
> control with class files and why you created a different project.  There
> are plenty of other jar files used in the project so what is different
> about the calendar?

There is nothing different about the calendar jar. I simply used this jar to be
able to make a jar bundle for net.sf.jmoney. The problem is that the class
loader can't load classes in a jar file which itself resides in a jar file. I
was just trying out this possibility of deploying plug-ins as jar files. I
think this is a nice way and even improves startup time. I'm not sure if we
should make plug-ins for each jar file contained as a library. It shouldn't be
our responsibility. However, it would be nice design.

> 2. The jasper report files no longer build automatically.  You can still
> build them manually by going to the net.sf.jmoney.reports directory and
> running: 
> 
> ant -f buildreports.xml -Declipse.home=\eclipse-SDK-3.1-win32\eclipse
> 
> However, I was wondering whether there was a reason for the removal of
> the automatic build.

I always had problems with the automatic build. Once I was able to run it on
Windows, then on Mac OS, but never on both of them. In my opinion, the jasper
files don't need to be rebuilt each time when the plug-in project is rebuilt,
only when new reports are added or changed which happens very rarely. The
jasper files are even checked in on CVS.

Greetings from Poland (a very nice country)

Johann