08:45
Access to ZIPs could be wrapped using a virtual provider of sorts so that way I do not have to initially support ZIP files. I am thinking of rewriting my ZIP code because the ZIP block reader is a bit nasty and the inflation algorithm is quite complex.
09:05
Actually, I can just build a JAR that I can launch with java -jar
and basically just skip the bootstrap when it is to be launched.
09:07
I can do this now because the host-javase project will depend on
Java SE classes such as the compiler, so it will no longer be needed
for the most part. Since I am going to work on the bootstrap system,
what I plan on doing with the project split would be to have it where
instead of recompiling all of the source code every single time it
changes, I will only recompile what has changed. Then in the end the
JARs will be merged together as one. Then this way, changes to the
build system will not be as slow to perform. Some of the project
system will have to be duplicated though, but I aim to make the project system
that the bootstrap uses to be as minimal as possible (just names and
dependencies). It will not care about making well formed MIDlets and such so
that it stays simplified.