Hi all
I'm new to this list as well as to the project but I'm finding
Subversion a really interesting project, and since I wanted to
contribute towards an integration of Subversion into Eclipse, I checked
out the source and started looking around.
By now, I'm familiar with the overalle structure of Subversion.
I can see that the current Java/JNI binding is incomplete and is
targeting an older version of the client interface, as was also
mentioned on the mailing list. Somebody mentioned that the JNI wrapper
was a little "too fat", not like e.g. SWT. Also, I read about the Swig
based binding which is underway. Is it going places?
I actually got it compiling by getting together all the pieces (APR,
Neon, ZLib, expat, and all the svn libs) - that's how I got the overview
;-)) - and updating the call signatures in the JNI wrapper where I
could. I'll agree that the
the JNI binding has a few gratuitous objects here and there, but I don't
think it looks too bad to salvage, and I'm willing to give it a try,
starting with the design issues.
(As an aside, an SWT-style thin wrapper still needs to map every system
structure and handle callback objects, which is done very elegantly in
SWT. Less nice is how they need to expose OS functions like MoveMemory!!!
What is really interesing in their approach is that they are creating
different JNI interfaces towards each supported platform, unlike AWT.
Conceptually, we are doing the same by designing a JNI wrapper
specifically for subversion (as opposed to emulating, say, CVS at the
wrapper layer). But that's a really long discussion.)
However, if the Swig binding is a no-brainer allowing reuse of the
existing mapping, and saving many lines of JNI code, then I'd happily
stay out of it. I have no experience whatsoever with Swig.
A bit about me:
I'm a software developer/consultant, 29 years of age, located in wintery
cold and dark Denmark.
I'm quite seasoned with both C/C++ and Java, but I haven't participated
a lot in Open Source projects (except for the ACE project, which was a
really long time ago).
-Jesper Steen Møller
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Received on Wed Dec 4 03:55:33 2002