[LANG] 3.0 status

2009-09-06 Thread Henri Yandell
Thought I'd share the status of Lang 3.0. * 65 resolved issues out of 131. Basically around 50% of the way there. * 65 contributors involved, with 55 patches and 340 comments. Thanks to everyone out there for the work so far. * First commit on 25 Mar 2008, so about 18 months along now. That was on

Re: [lang] New synchronization primitive

2009-09-06 Thread Henri Yandell
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Oliver Heger wrote: > Phil Steitz schrieb: >> >> Oliver Heger wrote: >>> >>> AIUI the mission of commons-lang is to provide extensions and >>> improvements for existing Java API classes. The concurrent package in >>> Java 5 is a great step forward in supporting multi

Re: [lang] New synchronization primitive

2009-09-06 Thread Oliver Heger
Phil Steitz schrieb: Oliver Heger wrote: AIUI the mission of commons-lang is to provide extensions and improvements for existing Java API classes. The concurrent package in Java 5 is a great step forward in supporting multi-threaded programming in Java, nevertheless there is certainly still room

Re: [MATH] Documenting test failures

2009-09-06 Thread sebb
On 06/09/2009, Phil Steitz wrote: > sebb wrote: > > On 05/09/2009, Luc Maisonobe wrote: > >> Phil Steitz a écrit : > >> > >>> sebb wrote: > >> >> There are quite a lot of assertions that don't give any details if a > test fails. > >> >> > >> >> For example, the following currently fail

Re: [lang] New synchronization primitive

2009-09-06 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Hi Phil... Do you suggest to start a commons-concurrent as a commons sandbox project ? On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Phil Steitz wrote: > Oliver Heger wrote: >> AIUI the mission of commons-lang is to provide extensions and >> improvements for existing Java API classes. The concurrent packag

Re: [MATH] Documenting test failures

2009-09-06 Thread Phil Steitz
sebb wrote: > On 05/09/2009, Luc Maisonobe wrote: >> Phil Steitz a écrit : >> >>> sebb wrote: >> >> There are quite a lot of assertions that don't give any details if a >> test fails. >> >> >> >> For example, the following currently fails when using Harmony: >> >> >> >> >> testIncreasingTol

Re: [lang] New synchronization primitive

2009-09-06 Thread Phil Steitz
Oliver Heger wrote: > AIUI the mission of commons-lang is to provide extensions and > improvements for existing Java API classes. The concurrent package in > Java 5 is a great step forward in supporting multi-threaded programming > in Java, nevertheless there is certainly still room for improvement

Re: [MATH] Documenting test failures

2009-09-06 Thread sebb
On 05/09/2009, Luc Maisonobe wrote: > Phil Steitz a écrit : > > > sebb wrote: > >> There are quite a lot of assertions that don't give any details if a test > fails. > >> > >> For example, the following currently fails when using Harmony: > >> > >> > testIncreasingTolerance(org.apache.commo

Re: [lang] New synchronization primitive

2009-09-06 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
I agree with regarding the point that we should extend and enhance what we already have, either in standard Java API(s) or what is already provided in other frameworks. For the class that you proposed, we can consider it like a utility class that is going to be provided instead of re-writing it. O

Re: [VALIDATOR] Proposal for a JSR-303 Bean Validation Implementation

2009-09-06 Thread Donald Woods
Niall Pemberton wrote: On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Donald Woods wrote: Everyone, I think it is time again to reopen the discussions around creating a Validator2 release [1], which implements the upcoming JSR-303 Bean Validation spec [2] and [3]. Since JSR-303 is now a required component

Re: [lang] New synchronization primitive

2009-09-06 Thread Oliver Heger
AIUI the mission of commons-lang is to provide extensions and improvements for existing Java API classes. The concurrent package in Java 5 is a great step forward in supporting multi-threaded programming in Java, nevertheless there is certainly still room for improvements. The proposed concurre