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| COMMONS SCXML |
| J5 BRANCH |
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| -- PURPOSE -- |
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| To improve the Commons SCXML codebase using JDK 5 and 6 features. |
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| -- STATUS -- |
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| Under active development (see TASKS section at the end). |
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| -- DETAILS -- |
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| This is an experimental branch to explore improvements to the Commons |
| SCXML codebase using JDK 5 and 6 features (originally authored for JDK 1.4). |
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| Commons SCXML uses JDK Collections extensively as part of the implementation |
| details. Generics can pretty some of that implementation. |
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| While there are no plans as yet to leverage annotations to describe state |
| machines (it is deemed relatively difficult to author state machines in such |
| a "distributed manner"), it may be possible to use them for lesser tasks |
| within the library. |
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| Other JDK 5 language improvements may come handy as well. |
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| -- TASKS -- |
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| J5 |
| * Type safety improvements - Mostly DONE |
| * @Override, @SuppressWarnings etc. - Mostly DONE |
| * Enhanced for, Iterator usage - Mostly DONE |
| * Switch to javax.xml.xpath - TODO |
| * Static imports - WONTFIX |
| J6 |
| * Use javax.script for more pluggable ELs - Added env.javascript package |
| * Rewrite parser: switch to javax.xml.stream and eliminate dependency on |
| Commons Digester (and thereby, Commons BeanUtils as well) |
