(I think somebody mentionned it here but I can't find it back. Tell me if there's a group working on it) Applicaton Configuration Access Protocol ...
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Ian Davis
iand@...
Jan 9, 1998 3:52 pm
As far as I know, noone is working on it but it would certainly be nice to have. Although the standard for ACAp is still under development. .id....
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Ralf W. Stephan
stephan@...
Jan 9, 1998 7:44 pm
Alexis wrote ... The people on the distributed-list are probably aware of that, it might be better to mention it there, or just write a page in the appropriate...
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Bradley Keith Neuberg
bkn3@...
Jan 10, 1998 12:33 am
... Is ACAP based on XML? It seems XML would be a perfect way to store meta-data about a user, so that any application can access this info. Here is a sample...
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Thomas Winzig
thomas@...
Jan 10, 1998 2:15 am
... <snip> I'm not familiar with ACAP, and I'm only slightly familiar with XML, but if we're talking about a registry of all settings on the computer, I don't ...
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Alexis Lê-Quôc
lequoc@...
Jan 10, 1998 3:10 am
From what I know ACAP is an access protocol. It only requires that data are organized in trees (jos/user/john/desktop.BackgroundColor for instance). it just...
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Bradley Keith Neuberg
bkn3@...
Jan 13, 1998 12:29 pm
... Yo yo yo, was up. <INSIDE_JOKE>The Linux mastermind is in the house! :) </INSIDE_JOKE> ... Here are the web addresses of some nifty neat-o spanky...
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Timothy_Metzler@...
Jan 15, 1998 10:49 pm
While looking in the collaboration area I noticed that the project to make a simple text editor of JOS was inactive. Well I stumbled across an actually GOOD...
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Timothy_Metzler@...
Jan 16, 1998 5:42 pm
thomas@... on 01/15/98 09:39:18 PM To: Timothy Metzler/users/IndyMac cc: Subject: Re: TextEditor Hi, Actually they are still discussing the license...
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Thomas Winzig
thomas@...
Jan 17, 1998 12:52 am
Hello all, Apologies for the long email. While at work today I was thinking about JosMail, the proposed standard mail program for JOS and I remembered Sun was...
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Clark Evans
clark.evans@...
Jan 17, 1998 4:38 am
... Yes, unless they are extremely nice to us, JavaMail is 100% pure, and they decide to grant us the right to distribute this. Don't hold your breath...
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Bradley Keith Neuberg
bkn3@...
Jan 17, 1998 8:31 am
... It seems that for Java classes that are not completely central to the booting up of the computer, we can direct the user to download them from the Sun ...
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Chris Bergstresser
chris@...
Jan 17, 1998 4:51 pm
... There might be legal issues for doing this, but they shouldn't be very serious (possibly just a couple of disclaimers we have to flash on the screen). The...
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Thomas Winzig
thomas@...
Jan 23, 1998 11:20 pm
Hello, I guess Netscape decided to make it easy on us! In case you hadn't heard, Netscape has decided to give away Netscape Navigator/Communicator for FREE. ...
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Dan Nachbar
nachbar@...
Jan 24, 1998 1:17 am
... I think you are jumping the gun a bit here. The press release does mention the GPL, but does not exactly say that they will be using an unmodified GPL....
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Thomas Winzig
thomas@...
Jan 27, 1998 1:16 am
Hello, While working on PrettyPrinter, I had to decide what package name to use. As a temporary one I chose org.jos.app.pretty. Is this package OK to use as...
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Markus Peter
warpi@...
Jan 27, 1998 1:01 pm
Hmm.. My personal preferrence for the PrettyPrinter package name would be org.jos.util.coding.pretty or org.jos.util.coding.prettyprinter Markus Peter...
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Thomas Winzig
thomas@...
Jan 27, 1998 6:36 pm
... I agree, that's why I was looking at the util package first. But then I referred to the java.util package as an example, and it doesn't contain any actual...
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BillRehm
billrehm@...
Jan 27, 1998 7:54 pm
Well, it looks like JOS might be able to ship with a browser, doesn't it? ... -- BillRehm at JOS - http://www.jos.org Unite for Java! -...
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Clark Evans
clark.evans@...
Jan 27, 1998 8:18 pm
Ok. We have a slight problem here. We have setup all this great structure without any rules that describe how the structure works.... We setup a structure...
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Thomas Winzig
thomas@...
Jan 28, 1998 1:21 am
Well, there is a very good reason to have structure within the packages, and that is to avoid clutter and eventually make things easier to find. It'd be like ...
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Jeroen van Gelderen
gelderen@...
Jan 28, 1998 12:40 pm
... I don't care what is is, as long as you put it in the appropriate top-level package. If a library is part of your application out it in ...
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Kurt J Wolf
Kurt.J.Wolf@...
Jan 28, 1998 5:02 pm
I totally agree with this and I suggest that allot of this can be done with the reflection API to query application dependancies and libraries....
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Philipp Meier
philipp.meier@...
Jan 29, 1998 2:10 pm
Oops, i accidently sent this message personally to Clark, so I forward this to jos-apps: ... And applications can provide some "ApplicationInfo" (like...
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Thomas Winzig
thomas@...
Feb 1, 1998 5:54 pm
Hello, This one is sort of long. I am considering using Perl after working with JavaCC/JJTree/JTB. Skip down near the bottom if you're in a hurry. I was...
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Clark Evans
clark.evans@...
Feb 1, 1998 6:13 pm
There was an article in SIGs JOOP, C++, or Java Journal this month that goes over a few design patterns and discusses the problems and a few possible solutions...
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Thomas Winzig
thomas@...
Feb 1, 1998 11:09 pm
... Hi Clark, I don't think developing my own grammar engine is a feasible solution, mostly because JavaCC is a good enough grammar engine in its own right....
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Thomas Winzig
thomas@...
Feb 10, 1998 3:46 am
Hello, I just read on developer.netscape.com that the source code they are releasing is for the Netscape Communicator 5.0 Standard package, not the Java...
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Enrique Perez
perez_enrique@...
Feb 20, 1998 9:16 pm
I'm writing two programs to network beans, called bean server and bean client. For now I've given them package names of org.jos.app.network.beanserver and...
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Bradley Keith Neuberg
bkn3@...
Feb 21, 1998 12:19 am
... Hey Enrique. We've decided to house code that is still in a developmental stage in org.jos.experimental.*. For example, ThomasWinzig and I are both ...
