Separating observable data structures out into a separate library?

[Johan Vos]

The Observable framework works as part of the whole JavaFX Platform on
Android, see http://javafxports.org

- Johan

2014-09-21 15:06 GMT+02:00 Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net>:

> Observable data structures are a useful and general abstraction, which
> JavaFX deploys to great effect. Combined with the mirroring techniques I
> posted about a few months ago I found them to be a good way of combining
> background work and network-updated state with GUI apps.
>
> For this reason, they'd also be useful outside of JavaFX, like on Android.
> So I have a couple of questions:
>
>    1. Are there license reasons why the JFX Observable* framework can't be
>    used in for example Android apps? How does the JFX license affect this?
>
>    2. If the JFX observables framework could be separated out from JFX
>    itself, would there be any appetite for a Java 6 compatible version that
>    resided in some separate mavenable library?
>