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From: "Chris Perrin" <cplists@hifiit.com>
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Subject: Re: JAM: Java API for Metadata
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:40:18 -0600
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I am in the same boat as James.  I think I'd like to help out on the project
if I could.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jastrachan@mac.com>
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Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: JAM: Java API for Metadata


> Hey Patrick
>
> I'd personally love to see JAM available as a separate package
> somewhere with support for both a JDK 1.4 and JDK 1.5 version. It
> sounds great! I'd also love to see some experiment done on a JDK 1.4
> runtime metadata support so that, say, as part of the build process we
> can turn doclet tags into some generated classes so JAM could
> introspect the annotations at runtime in a JDK 1.5-style way.
>
> Then the next step would be for us to be able to use AOP-style
> introductions to generate the annotations using pointcuts (e.g. rules
> to define where the annotations should go) so we don't have to litter
> our code with doclet tags that we could infer using some simple rules
> in our build systems (e.g. design patterns, naming conventions and so
> forth - allowing the use of doclet tags to overload any such rules).
>
> Once we get there I'd be a very happy chap :)
>
>
> On 27 Mar 2004, at 03:23, Patrick Calahan wrote:
> > Hello everyone.  I am a committer on Xml-Beans, another project
> > currently in the Apache Incubator.  As part of my work there, I have
> > developed an API for representing Java types and their associated
> > metadata which I believe would be of general use to the community.
> >
> > The API is called 'JAM' - the Java API for Metadata.  On the surface,
> > it looks quite a bit like Reflection or the Doclet API, but it affords
> > a greater level of flexibility and convenience, and in particular
> > provides solutions for a number of thorny problems posed by JSR175.
> >
> > I have had a few discussions with some folks on
> > general@incubator.apache.org about possibly spinning JAM up as an
> > independent project from xbeans.  It was suggested that it would be
> > useful to test the waters in some other projects such as Geronimo to
> > see if JAM would indeed be generally useful.  So, here I am testing.
> > :)
> >
> > Anyway, if you want more gory details, I have temporarily posted some
> > white papers and the API docs here:
> >
> > http://www.pcal.net/jam
> >
> > Any feedback is more than welcome.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Patrick
> >
> >
>
> James
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