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#15 Prefuse integration in Eclipse

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nobody
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2010-02-25
2010-02-25
Gabriel
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Hello Jeffrey,

First, I would like to thank you about the great job you did
with Prefuse. We are using it a lot in our applications.

And, now the goal is to be able to use it from eclipse
components (like us, see project MoDisco ...). We are in the
process to provide it, if you agree as an Eclipse bundle
(see project Orbit).
However, to do that correctly , I would like to rename the
project from "prefuse" to "org.prefuse" to have a better
namespace, it conerns only the name of the project and not
the packages to keep backward compatibility.

In the process, I have also started a refactoring of the
code to use generics, and a direct usage of class
CopyOnWriteArrayList from jdk instead of internal copy
(which provides a direct access to array).
In this bundle, I have also remove the class
BrowserLauncher.java which is not compliant with EPL and two
methods in the class TimeUnit. I was able to do that
effortless because they were not used.

To summarize, from one side, I am able to provide Prefuse as
a bundle into eclipse platform, from other side, I am able
to provide a "java 5" version of Prefuse with generics and
enhanced for, ...
What do you think about these ideas ?

Regards,
Gabriel

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