Hopefully, today few fixes will be finally in the cvs, so the next question is: How to make this backend the default without breaking things? There are 3 solution possibile, two of which are fine : * To add a new defaultFactoryClass to the java.util.prefs.Preference An attempt is made to load this class by name, if it fails then a default backend (FileBased) is instantiated. This approach adds a few lines of code that pollute a bit the implementation, so it is just listed here, but I don't like it. * To add a configuration property to gnu.classpath.Configuration That is, if the gconf backend is not built, this property is not set at all, so everything is just like always. Right now this is what I would do. * To add a property file to resources/META-INF. This one makes sense as the preference api is not different by concept from the sound api, and sound api configurations are there. But there is a problem with it, as far as i understand it, this property would be valid always, being the gconf backend built or not. This means that each time a preference is instantiated, the first test to see if the java.util.prefs.PreferencesFactory system property is defined would throw an exception (the property is always defined) if the gconf backend is not available. It then reverts to the FileBased, but there is a small performance impact here. On system where the gconf backend is not used, maybe for performance reasons, this may be annoying. What do you think it would be the best? Mark, Tom? Thanks, Mario -- Lima Software, SO.PR.IND. s.r.l. http://www.limasoftware.net/ pgp key: http://subkeys.pgp.net/ Please, support open standards: http://opendocumentfellowship.org/petition/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Questa =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E8?= una parte del messaggio firmata digitalmente Url : http://developer.classpath.org/pipermail/classpath/attachments/20060701/3779939d/attachment.pgp
