[josm-dev] Fwd: start of gwtosm the google webtoolkit port of josm

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>>
>> Maybe. I'm not familiar with it. But it does seem to do a lot of
>> things right, and it's well maintained and complete. You could do a
>> lot worse than using its primatives and well tested upload/download
>> code for a new client.
>
> I am not convinced that any branch aimed at making JOSM more suitable for
> gwt will still be well maintained and complete ;-) or more precisely, I am
> pretty sure that it will not be possible to pull this off without drawbacks
> for the "real" JOSM.

It might be a waste of time, but I am learning about gwt and josm and
it is pretty much fun.

I don't see what drawbacks this might have,the only real major change
so far was removing generics from quadtree.

It is a separate branch, and until It is running nicely, and we have
documented the issues, I would not proposal any changes to jsom
directly, except one : we need test cases for the classes.

so lets talk about how to add in test cases to the real josm to test
the components.

Lets talk about moving the Navigatable component, and the projection
and properties and other needed things outside of the gui framework.
Lets talk about how to use less reflection and more virtual methods or
other type specific dispatching.

I think there is alot we can learn from trying to extract a core josm.

mike


>
>> Isn't josm-ng dead-ish at this point? I thought it was just a one-man
>> project whose ideas are mostly in the main josm by now, maybe I'm
>> wrong.
>
> If you want a Java library to handle OSM primitives, you can do worse than
> using JOSM-NG, dead or not dead. And if you want a Java library with a bunch
> of active developers behind it then I suspect that you are unlikely to find
> that in JOSM.
>
>> Anyway, we'll see how this GWT experiment turns out.
>
> True.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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