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Models basic aspects of the metadata surrounding list of source roots, such as the classpath. More information in the Javadoc.
Question (arch-overall): Describe the overall architecture. Answer: ClassPathAPIs - The ClassPath APIs provides java classpath like ordered collection of (source) roots with ability to listen on changes and helper methods like finding the file under the roots, returning a path from root to given file. It also provides a registry where projects register their classpaths to make them visible to languages infrastructure. Question (arch-usecases): Describe the main use cases of the new API. Who will use it under what circumstances? What kind of code would typically need to be written to use the module? Answer:The API is widely used by all sorts of IDE modules which need to work with sources. The SPI is intended mainly for (java) platforms and library providers, and project type providers, to declare all of this information.
Question (arch-time): What are the time estimates of the work? Answer:Essentially done.
Question (arch-quality): How will the quality of your code be tested and how are future regressions going to be prevented? Answer:Ought to be covered by unit tests.
Question (arch-where): Where one can find sources for your module? Answer:
The sources for the module are in the NetBeans Mercurial repositories.
For many purposes.
NbClassLoader
is used by
ClassPath.getClassLoader(...)
.
The default answer to this question is:
These modules are required in project.xml:
None.
Question (dep-platform): On which platforms does your module run? Does it run in the same way on each? Answer:Any.
Question (dep-jre): Which version of JRE do you need (1.2, 1.3, 1.4, etc.)? Answer:1.5+.
Question (dep-jrejdk): Do you require the JDK or is the JRE enough? Answer:JRE.
Just a JAR.
Question (deploy-nbm): Can you deploy an NBM via the Update Center? Answer:Yes.
Question (deploy-shared): Do you need to be installed in the shared location only, or in the user directory only, or can your module be installed anywhere? Answer:Anywhere.
Question (deploy-packages): Are packages of your module made inaccessible by not declaring them public? Answer:Yes, only API and SPI packages are exported.
Question (deploy-dependencies): What do other modules need to do to declare a dependency on this one, in addition to or instead of the normal module dependency declaration (e.g. tokens to require)? Answer: Nothing.No I18N issues.
Question (compat-standards): Does the module implement or define any standards? Is the implementation exact or does it deviate somehow? Answer:No.
Question (compat-version): Can your module coexist with earlier and future versions of itself? Can you correctly read all old settings? Will future versions be able to read your current settings? Can you read or politely ignore settings stored by a future version? Answer:No settings.
Question (compat-deprecation): How the introduction of your project influences functionality provided by previous version of the product? Answer:XXX no answer for compat-deprecation
java.io.File
directly?
Answer:
No.
Question (resources-layer): Does your module provide own layer? Does it create any files or folders in it? What it is trying to communicate by that and with which components? Answer:No.
Question (resources-read): Does your module read any resources from layers? For what purpose? Answer:No.
Question (resources-mask): Does your module mask/hide/override any resources provided by other modules in their layers? Answer:No.
Question (resources-preferences): Does your module uses preferences via Preferences API? Does your module use NbPreferences or or regular JDK Preferences ? Does it read, write or both ? Does it share preferences with other modules ? If so, then why ? Answer:XXX no answer for resources-preferences
org.openide.util.Lookup
or any similar technology to find any components to communicate with? Which ones?
Answer:
Yes, query implementations are found using Lookup as usual.
Question (lookup-register): Do you register anything into lookup for other code to find? Answer:No.
Question (lookup-remove): Do you remove entries of other modules from lookup? Answer:No.
System.getProperty
) property?
On a similar note, is there something interesting that you
pass to java.util.logging.Logger
? Or do you observe
what others log?
Answer:
No.
Question (exec-component): Is execution of your code influenced by any (string) property of any of your components? Answer:No.
Question (exec-ant-tasks): Do you define or register any ant tasks that other can use? Answer:XXX no answer for exec-ant-tasks
Question (exec-classloader): Does your code create its own class loader(s)? Answer:There is support for getting a class loader corresponding to a given classpath, useful e.g. for loading user JavaBeans to introspect. This is not used within the module itself.
Question (exec-reflection): Does your code use Java Reflection to execute other code? Answer:No.
Question (exec-privateaccess): Are you aware of any other parts of the system calling some of your methods by reflection? Answer:No.
Question (exec-process): Do you execute an external process from your module? How do you ensure that the result is the same on different platforms? Do you parse output? Do you depend on result code? Answer:No.
Question (exec-introspection): Does your module use any kind of runtime type information (instanceof
,
work with java.lang.Class
, etc.)?
Answer:
No.
Question (exec-threading): What threading models, if any, does your module adhere to? How the project behaves with respect to threading? Answer:Currently each data structure is intended to be thread-safe.
Question (security-policy): Does your functionality require modifications to the standard policy file? Answer:No.
Question (security-grant): Does your code grant additional rights to some other code? Answer:
ClassPath.getClassLoader(...)
is granted all permissions.
None.
Question (format-dnd): Which protocols (if any) does your code understand during Drag & Drop? Answer:None.
Question (format-clipboard): Which data flavors (if any) does your code read from or insert to the clipboard (by access to clipboard on means calling methods onjava.awt.datatransfer.Transferable
?
Answer:
None.
No.
Question (perf-exit): Does your module run any code on exit? Answer:No.
Question (perf-scale): Which external criteria influence the performance of your program (size of file in editor, number of files in menu, in source directory, etc.) and how well your code scales? Answer:Queries perform linearly in number of implementations, but as usual there will typically be only one or two implementations, e.g. delegating to owner projects.
Currently ClassPath
s keep global file change listeners to permit
roots to be invalidated, and this makes file change events linear in the
number of ClassPath
objects. This area is being studied and will
hopefully be optimized, perhaps reducing overhead to a small constant.
May require explicit support from the Filesystems API to fully optimize.
None known.
Question (perf-mem): How much memory does your component consume? Estimate with a relation to the number of windows, etc. Answer:TBD, but probably little.
Question (perf-wakeup): Does any piece of your code wake up periodically and do something even when the system is otherwise idle (no user interaction)? Answer:No.
Question (perf-progress): Does your module execute any long-running tasks? Answer:No.
Question (perf-huge_dialogs): Does your module contain any dialogs or wizards with a large number of GUI controls such as combo boxes, lists, trees, or text areas? Answer:No.
Question (perf-menus): Does your module use dynamically updated context menus, or context-sensitive actions with complicated and slow enablement logic? Answer:No.
Question (perf-spi): How the performance of the plugged in code will be enforced? Answer:No special provisions.