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[John Moxley]

Cheers,

I have added some suggestions to Jira, I hope they are acceptable, I should be able to dedicate a few hours a week to help in any way the community wishes.

Jack.

On 29 Apr 2013, at 20:18, Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com> wrote:

> I think using JDK 8 is the right thing now (the gradle builds are based on it, you need JDK 8 anyway for the binary stub, and soon we will have a hard dependency on 8 to build, once the Filtered / Sorted list support goes in).
> 
> Right now we don't use lambdas, but I think within the next couple weeks it will be time to start experimenting. In particular, what I'm interested in is whether the static footprint is reduced without any performance penalty by converting over all "simple" anonymous inner classes to instead be based on Lambdas. I tried this experiment late last year but lambda's weren't ready yet for prime time. Now they should be.
> 
> Richard
> 
> On Apr 29, 2013, at 12:09 PM, Sven Reimers <sven.reimers at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> In terms of build warnings - should we use JDK8 builds to build the JavaFX 8 source code and take all the warnings from there?
>> 
>> Just thinking about the improvements in type inference..
>> 
>> What about usage of lambda syntax?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> -Sven
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Hi Jack!
>> 
>> A good place to start is with the OpenJDK "How to Contribute" page[1]. There are many different ways to get started. I would suggesting starting with some easier things to get your feet wet and get accustomed to the process of contributing. As you build up a reputation, it will be easier to do more. A good code-contribution project would be https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-18937. Another project that is frequently done in OpenJDK is to remove build warnings (of which we have plenty!). Another good opportunity is to build using the new Gradle build support[2] and then report back bugs or submit patches.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Richard
>> 
>> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/
>> [2] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/OpenJFX/Building+OpenJFX
>> 
>> On Apr 24, 2013, at 9:59 AM, Jack Moxley <jack at moxley.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi guys,
>> >
>> > I am new to the list, I am a senior java developer with over 10 years experience from mobile to server side applications. I have started to use the latest version of javafx, mainly because of the opened up CSS property hooks, on my personal projects.
>> >
>> > If you need any help from reviews to development to bug reporting, please ask. Certainly I have started to write some extension classes to the property mechanisms already in place.
>> >
>> > Kind regards
>> >
>> > Jack
>> 
>> 
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