2014/07/30

DISCLAIMER: These notes are from the defunct k8 project which precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26! The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it.

01:53

Currently with ServiceManager I would be eventually be rewriting ServiceLoader twice which is not what I want to do. Instead, I can have it wrap ServiceLoader (if it exists) and then use a property to define extra services. This way on Java 5 I can use -D while on Java 6 and above ServiceLoader would be used. This way I can cheat the plugin-manager in a bit while still using ServiceLoader.

05:07

My freshly written IteratorChain should help me with the chaining of the class loader iterators.

06:52

I will need to remember to place information on the available services later on somehow in the faux package building scripts.

19:40

The property based loader works.

20:43

What I need to use now is write the actual plugins, I made build-source-db take an input and an output. I also need to write -help for ArgumentParsing.

23:55

I decided to build a template class to reduce all the duplicate code in all of the Mains, since they do the same argument parsing loop, have similar enumerations, so merging them all has simplified things. One change in the TemplateMain will change all the Mains.