304954 - Grendel needs a backend API

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Grendel Graveyard :: User Interface, enhancement)

Description

[Kieran Maclean]

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Grendel needs the front-end code separated from the back-end code.

This should be designed to provide the information that is required by the UI in
a form (structure) that is appropriate for the UI.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Kieran Maclean]

How should simple events be handled in the backend api?

There is the option of having every event "propagate" up to the Server and group
of Servers and being "listened" for at any point.

Or should the event simply happen for that entity and go no further, if you are
"listening" for folder events on a folder then you will receive events only for
that folder.

Or some idea not mentioned here.

Comment 2

[Kieran Maclean]

Arranging bug dependences and assignments for code patches.

Comment 3

[Kieran Maclean]

Arranging bug dependences and assignments for code patches.

Comment 4

[Kieran Maclean]

Committed new API Code

Comment 5

[Kieran Maclean]

Attachment: My list of External Libraryies

The List of External Libraries used to compile and run grendel.
http://wired.st-and.ac.uk/~hash9/grendel/grendel-jar-pack-20051224.zip

Comment 6

[R.J. Keller]

Comment on attachment 206775 [details]
My list of External Libraryies

Do we need jars for every langauge? Can we only ship ones for a certain langauge, and let the user download other language packs?

Also, do we really need these jars in the release builds?
- derbyTesting.jar
- hsqldb.jar (aren't we using derby for addressbook?)
- swing-layout-0.7.jar (what is this?)
- xercesImpl.jar (isn't xerces shipped w/ JRE?)
- xml-apis.jar (same as above, isn't SAX and DOM shipped with Java?)

Comment 7

[Kieran Maclean]

(In reply to comment #6)
> (From update of attachment 206775 [details] [edit])
> Do we need jars for every language? Can we only ship ones for a certain
> language, and let the user download other language packs?
Could do, this is just my list it probably needs trimmed.
> 
> Also, do we really need these jars in the release builds?
> - derbyTesting.jar
Probably not
> - hsqldb.jar (aren't we using derby for addressbook?)
We have support for both derby and hsqldb
> - swing-layout-0.7.jar (what is this?)
The new layout manager made for the new NetBeans GUI designer
> - xercesImpl.jar (isn't xerces shipped w/ JRE?)
> - xml-apis.jar (same as above, isn't SAX and DOM shipped with Java?)
One of these is needed I don't remember which one, probably xercesImpl.jar

Comment 8

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

marking wontfix as grendel is removed from cvs