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Re: Developing Java Client?

From: Patrick Mayweg <mayweg_at_qint.de>
Date: 2003-10-23 19:45:34 CEST

Hi Noel,

Noel J. Bergman wrote:

>>The current Java API's that rely on JNI are bad
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>And you gave a very good list of reasons why.
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>However, apparently, Subversion does a great deal of work on the client
>side, so it is not a matter of just writing a transport layer. See:
>http://subversion.tigris.org/files/documents/15/17/svn-design.html#Client%20Layer.
>From the responses, it seems that the major concern is in that area, not the
>wire-level protocol. Writing just a WebDAV transport (for which there is a
>good starting point at Apache), for example, would be just part of the
>picture.
>
I think for building a full pure java client you have to port 95% of the
C-code to java and keep it in sync with the C-code. That why I went the
JNI-way.

>
> --- Noel
>
Regards,
Patrick

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