[tinyTiM-discuss] tinyTiM 1.0 vs. 1.5

[Lars H. <he...@se...>]

Hi,

Here a short overview what has changed from 1.0 to the current SVN
version:

- Automerge is not supported anymore
  Reason: tinyTiM does not ensure that the topic references are kept
  valid. We'd have to use a mechanism like TM4J where the merged
  topics reference to each other. This is more work than necessary, I
  think.
- Merging works (at least it should ;))
  Merging does suppress duplicates and ensures that all topic
  characteristics are transferred from one topic to the other.
  (Topic map merging does not work yet, but should tomorrow)
  The new merging mechanism bypasses TMAPI and works on top of
  tinyTiM's own API which should result in a faster merging process
- Two non-TMAPI indexes: TypeInstanceIndex and ScopedIndex. These are
  used while merging and they have a simplified API compared to the
  quite heavy TMAPI index API
- Introduced interfaces IReifiable, ITyped etc.
  These interfaces simplify access to TMDM features. I think we should
  remove these if we move to TMAPI 2.0
- Configurable collection factory
  It's possible to replace the collection factory (factory used to
  create all Maps / Sets in the core) with a custom implementation.
  Currently, tinyTiM supports a TroveCollectionFactory (if Trove4J is
  found in the class path) and a standard JavaCollectionFactory which
  uses the standard Java Collections.
- Some kind of event API
  Well, this is not meant to be utilised by 3rd parties and needs more
  work, I guess.
- Java 1.5 (where possible since TMAPI is not 1.5-aware)

Best regards,
Lars
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