Re: GNU Classpath and JDK1.0 completeness and compatibility

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 13:37, Roman Kennke wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> In one of the last threads on this list there was a discussion about
> which JDK spec GNU Classpath should have as a goal for its 1.0 release.
> I will not answer it here (altough it seemed that most people see 1.4 as
> a reasonable goal).
> 
> To concentrate efforts and to provide a basis for future development I
> think it is reasonable to start with spec JDK1.0, complete this and then
> concentrate on 1.1 and so on. Sure, there are some incompatibilities and
> inconsistencies when going this way, in these cases I propose to make a
> compromise in favour of the newer spec.
> 
> I have put together a checklist against JDK 1.0:
> 
> http://ontographics.com/classpath/status-1.0.html
> 
> I am starting now to manually audit all classes listed there with the
> criteria listed on this page in mind. I'll start with documentation,
> then check for implementations of the specified classes and public
> methods and then write missing tests and/or fix failing tests. Of course
> everybody is invited to join these efforts. :)
> 

This is hugely useful.  Once you're done the AWT audit, I will write
documentation and tests to fill in the missing bits.

While the Acunia Visual Test Suite is excellent for testing general
functionality, it doesn't really test API conformance.  For API-level
testing, we need a new AWT test suite that contains minimal test cases
and detailed instructions for how to run each one.  I think we should
write a test suite like this as part of the JDK 1.0 effort.

Tom