Il giorno dom, 14/05/2006 alle 14.51 +0200, Robert Schuster ha scritto:
> Hi,
> thanks to Mario a long standing wish to have a GConf-based backend for
> java.util.prefs is becoming a reality.
>
> I think it is quite clear that GNU Classpath wants this code! :)
Hi!
I know this is a long email, sorry to the list (and sorry also for my
english)...
I'm glad to hear you! I wrote this backend because we needed it, and I
found that classpath needed it too... I think that contribute it to the
community was the right think to do (and if it gets accepted is simply a
great thing and an honor for me!).
> However there are some questions and things to do:
>
> 1) Copyright assignment.
> Mario and everyone who has worked on the code needs to assign copyright to the
> Free Software Foundation before we can integrate it.
This is no problem at all, just I need to know how (and what) to do.
> 2) Backend chosing
> How is should the user or the package maintainers decide which backend is to be
> used? Do we want a configure-time option or provide a possibility to chose the
> backend when starting the VM (using a property).
Ok, this is a bit tricky.
In both gnu classpath[1] and sun jdk the backend is choosen by setting
this system property:
System.setProperty("java.util.prefs.PreferencesFactory",
"gnu.java.util.prefs.GConfBasedFactory");
Assuming the package name for the backend will not change.
Anyway, there are few problems, I tried to be more close to the specs as
possible, but gconf does not work like the windows registry, and I think
that sun had the windows registry in mind when they designed the
preference api.
There are a couple of problems (I'm still checking for others):
* sync does not really sync the backend: is just an hint.
