[Fling] Some initial thoughts

[Chris Allen]

Have a great time in Europe Scott and thanks for your comments here. I
will try and respond to some of these soon.

-Chris

On 6/16/06, Scott Hyndman <scott at affsys.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> Here are some thoughts off the top of my head.
>
> ClassLoader implementation
>
> Obviously our implementation will have to differ quite a bit. Things
> like findClass() can be easily implemented, but others like
> loadClass() don't really make a lot of sense (unless we can split up
> class swfs like Ariaware Optimizer does...which isn't really
> reasonable). More likely we're going to have to go with a
> loadLibrary() idea, which is enough...although at the moment I'm not
> sure how this will fit into the Swing architecture and what changes
> will have to be made.
>
> Maybe we could go so far as associating different packages with swfs,
> so a loadClass triggers the loading of the associated library swf if
> necessary. We could do it in a cool hierarchy-based way with
> overrides...so something like:
>
> "org.actionstep" - actionstep.swf
> "org.actionstep.rpc" - rpc.swf
>
> So if I ask for "org.actionstep.NSButton", actionstep.swf will be loaded.
> The same for "org.actionstep.binding.NSKeyValueObserving" but if I ask for
> "org.actionstep.rpc.ASOperation" the rpc swf will be loaded. Pretty
> flexible I think...but again, we'd have to see how well this fits into
> the Swing architecture.
>
> Exception handling
>
> Since this is a Java framework, I think it would be in our best
> interest to offer some rigid exception handling. ActionStep has some
> interesting methods for dealing with stack traces by using trace()
> which we could rip out. I've always loved detailed exceptions when I'm
> developing an application, so it would be nice if we could do the
> same. Basically what this means is we must use try-catches at every
> entry point (any callback method) and maybe offer some
> application-level exception handlers.
>
> That's it for now. My plane leaves in a few hours, so I'd best get
> packing. Talk to you in a couple weeks!
>
> Scott
>
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