Re: Classpath Swing development?

[Thomas Zander]

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Since you asked :)

On Monday 24 May 2004 20:30, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>   If there are issues not covered here, you should
> raise them on the list so they can be added.

What is missing is a guide or download that makes it possible for JAVA 
programmers to start hacking. As soon as gcc, automake and autoconf come 
into play you loose 75% of your potential hackers-market for any Java 
project.

A snapshot with generated makefiles, and an included libtool would be a 
very good start.


On the hacking guide point 6.1, for the following item;

Don't use redundant modifiers or other redundant constructs. Here is some 
sample code that shows various redundant items in comments: 
/*import java.lang.Integer;*/
/*abstract*/ interface I {
   /*public abstract*/ void m();
   /*public static final*/ int i = 1;
   /*public static*/ class Inner {}
}
final class C /*extends Object*/ {
   /*final*/ void m() {}
}


The one who wrote this obviously has no idea that 
        public void bla()
is very different from
        void bla()
and
        class x{  int i=1; }
is very different from:
        class x{  public static final int i=1; }
an inner class is also not static by default.


An additional item for the coding style should be a note that if you 
implement equals() then you should also implement hashCode();

What I also miss is the ordering inside a class; what I see most of the 
java community do is to put static fields first, then normal fields, then 
constructors, then private/protected constructors, then public get/set 
style methods, then normal public methods, then private methods, then all 
static methods, then non-static inner classes, then static inner classes.
This is what the industry uses; I don't really care what the standard is in 
GNU classpath, but I surely would like to see a coding convention.

- -- 
Thomas
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