Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-harmony-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 52752 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2005 08:25:59 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 6 Jun 2005 08:25:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 96543 invoked by uid 500); 6 Jun 2005 08:25:51 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-harmony-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 96419 invoked by uid 500); 6 Jun 2005 08:25:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact harmony-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 96391 invoked by uid 99); 6 Jun 2005 08:25:49 -0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (hermes.apache.org: local policy) Received: from imag.imag.fr (HELO imag.imag.fr) (129.88.30.1) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.28) with ESMTP; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 01:25:46 -0700 Received: from [129.88.103.2] (invite2.imag.fr [129.88.103.2]) by imag.imag.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j568PU6E022560 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:25:31 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42A4088B.2000600@ungoverned.org> Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 04:25:47 -0400 From: "Richard S. Hall" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.3 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [arch] How much of java.* and friends does Harmony need to write. Was: VM/Classlibrary interface References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (imag.imag.fr [129.88.30.1]); Mon, 06 Jun 2005 10:25:31 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Virus-Checked: Checked X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Jeroen Frijters wrote: >No, that does not solve the problem of getting access to the internals >of public classes. For example, java.lang.VMThread needs to access >package private methods in java.lang.Thread. > > You are correct, if your design is such that you need private access both ways, then you are pretty much screwed. I would have thought that java.lang.Thread would have only needed access to java.lang.VMThread, not the other way around. C'est la vie. -> richard