<Swing Dev> 6179357: Request interface javax.swing.tree.TreeModel to have a generic type for nodes

[Florian Brunner]

Hi Alecander!

Thanks for your help. I installed the basic environment and started to 
work on this issue.

Note that the path at

https://openjdk.dev.java.net/source/browse/openjdk/

as well as at

https://openjdk.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectSource

don't seem to be correct!

At
|https://openjdk.dev.java.net/svn/openjdk/trunk

there's only a www directory!

Instead I checked out

https://openjdk.dev.java.net/svn/openjdk/jdk/trunk/j2se/

Is this the correct path to work on the Swing project?

I'will post to this list again when there are more news or questions arise.

-Florian

|Alexander Potochkin schrieb:
>
> Hello Florian
>
> Welcome to the swing-dev
>
> The RFE #6179357 is definitely worth investigating
> we was going to generify Swing for 1.6
> but unfortunately didn't have enough time
>
> Your fixes are welcome
>
> Here is the information how to contribute:
> http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/
>
> For now the process is:
>
> Become a contributor
> download openJDK
> make the fix
> ask any related questions on this list
> submit a patch
> we'll assign a sponsor who we'll review your fix
> and put it back when it is done
>
> The whole process will be simplified when we complete moving to 
> Mercurial repository
>
> For this RFE you don't need to file JSR
> as you mentioned changes should as backward compatible as possible
>
> but we'll need the request to the special committee which keeps track 
> of the Java public API, the sponsor will do it for you
>
> Please note that we prefer to make the incremental fixes which fix the 
> particular problem, I mean, not to mix e.g. generifying and optimization
> in one fix but split it to two ones.
>
> >I want my
> > progress to be visible by the public. So what is the best strategy? 
> Work at
> > openjdk.org? Work at SwingLabs? Start a new project at java.net?
>
> The current process doesn't seem to provide much visibility for the 
> public. To make it visible I personally would do the following things:
>
> - start a project on java.net
> (not sure it helps for this particular case)
> - blog about your progress and discuss it with the community
> (this is the best way to make your work visible)
>
> Thanks
> alexp
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm interessted in the RFE "6179357: Request interface 
>> javax.swing.tree.TreeModel to have a generic type for nodes". Is 
>> there already someone working on this issue? If not I would like to 
>> help there.
>>
>> I want to address following issues:
>> - add generics support to the Swing framework
>> - provide support for new language features like varargs
>> - provide better support for the collection framework
>> - optimize code where reasonable
>>
>> Do you think this is a good idea? How probable will such a change 
>> make its way to the "official" jdk?
>> I sent the signed SCA to Sun. So what would be the next steps? I want 
>> my progress to be visible by the public. So what is the best 
>> strategy? Work at openjdk.org? Work at SwingLabs? Start a new project 
>> at java.net?
>>
>> Should I work on a branch of openjdk? Or should I copy the current 
>> revision to a new repository? What is the easiest/ best way to get 
>> the source back to openjdk?
>>
>> Is a JSR needed for such a change? Note: the suggested changes should 
>> be backwards compatible (eg. thanks to the "raw type feature" of 
>> generics), as far as I can see up to now. (The only exception is of 
>> course reflection, which can always break if you change an API).
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> -Florian
>