[Tm4j-developers] [patch] Rudimentary XTM 2.0 reading support

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Hi!

As a start, I have written is some rudimentary XTM 2.0 support for the
current TM4J. The patch is attached.

ciao,
Xuân.


Xuân Baldauf wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the current TM4J is becoming increasingly outdated. Much work needs to
> be done:
>
>    1. support the current TMDM (
>       http://www.isotopicmaps.org/sam/sam-model/2006-06-18/ )
>    2. support the current XTM 2.0 (
>       http://www.isotopicmaps.org/sam/sam-xtm/2006-06-19/ )
>    3. support Java 1.5 style (at least, Java 1.6 is already released now)
>
> To do this, significant changes are necessary, which probably are not
> backwards compatible. As I do not expect every old TM4J-application to
> be adapted, I suggest opening a new development branch. The old branch
> can be advanced to a version 1.0 (probably without the above
> features), but the new branch should result in a TM4J 2.0 with the
> above features. I think that it is possible to keep a TM4J 2.0 binary
> compatible and source compatible (albeit with compiler warnings) with
> TM4J 0.9.8-applicatons, however, for my part of development,
> compatibility would not be a major concern.
>
> For me, there seem to be 3 options:
>
>    1. Change the current TM4J CVS version to include these features.
>    2. Fork a new branch of the current TM4J CVS version within the
>       current CVS repository to include these features in this new branch.
>    3. Fork a new branch of the current TM4J CVS version outside of the
>       current CVS repository to include these features in this new branch.
>
> I really do not like option 3 (as this would decrease the already low
> (at least quiet) userbase and the probability of other people
> cooperatively improving on it as well). However, for option 1 or 2, I
> need your approval.
>
> What do you think?
>
> ciao,
> Xuân.
>
>
>
>
> P.S.: About one year ago, I asked this:
>
> Xuân Baldauf wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to create a project which uses tm4j (and ozone). However,
>> tm4j is still not converted to use Java 1.5 generics (see
>> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5/pdf/generics-tutorial.pdf ). Thus, I'd
>> like to change tm4j to use Java 1.5 generics. However, after this
>> conversion, using a generics-capable Java compiler (Java 1.5 javac or
>> special Java 1.4 javac) is required to compile the changed tm4j.
>>
>> Would the current tm4j community accept such changes to the
>> development tree of tm4j? (If not, I would not put work into doing
>> these changes.)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Xuân Baldauf.
>>