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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:30:08 +0400
From: "Alexey Petrenko" <alexey.a.petrenko@gmail.com>
To: dev@harmony.apache.org
Subject: Re: [GSOC2008] Application for harmony-swing-rtf
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And do not forget that we got rtf package contribution. It just uses
JavaCC grammar with not acceptable license.
So I would say that we need to create JavaCC grammar from scratch.

SY, Alexey

2008/3/31, Alexei Zakharov <alexei.zakharov@gmail.com>:
> Just a few words in addition to that Alexei has already said.
>
> > Implementation will fully cover functionality of Sun implementation of RTF parser, and, if possible, supersede it adding support of latest versions of RTF specification.
>
> Sun implementation most likely supports (or is a subset of) RTF v1.7
> or below. So it probably make sense to set this spec. version as an
> intermediate goal. Of course it depends on differences between 1.7 and
> 1.9 (222 pages of text vs. 283 pages). If differences are minimal then
> we may probably avoid this step.
>
> I also support Alexei's point 5: it would be nice if you can find some
> RTFEditorKit demo somewhere. I heard that one of the Sun's standard
> demos uses it but I was unable to find anything like this in JDK 1.5
> demos. May be you'll be more lucky.
>
> As for the rest of your proposal - IMO it looks good. So I'm +1 for submit.
>
> Regards,
> Alexei
>
>
> 2008/3/30, Aleksey Lagoshin <ayzen.quwe@gmail.com>:
> > Thanks for comments. I've taken them into account.
> >
> >  2008/3/30, Alexei Fedotov <alexei.fedotov@gmail.com>:
> >
> > >
> >  > Aleksey,
> >  > Great job. Here are few comments:
> >  >
> >  > 1.
> >  > > at worst, cover the functionality of Sun's RTF parser, the first goal
> >  > will be to conduct black-box tests on Sun's implementation of RTFEditorKit.
> >  > I believe "worst" is not good for application, let's be positive. I
> >  > suggest we set a goal "to conduct black box testing of Sun
> >  > implementation, create a grammar under Apache license for one of the
> >  > popular parser generators, and create RTFEditorKit toolkit
> >  > implementation based on that grammar. The side goal of exposing such
> >  > grammar under open source license would help any java program to
> >  > conduct RTF parsing."
> >  >
> >  > 2.
> >  > > Test cases for all created Java classes and documentation.
> >  > I believe testing classes is enough.
> >  >
> >  > 3.
> >  > Please, add the parser from Eclipse team to you list. While we may not
> >  > want the third parser in Harmony, but this consideration might be weak
> >  > compared to the advantages of that parser advantages. BTW I believe we
> >  > are using ecj already for hdk.
> >  >
> >  > 4.
> >  > It seems that "" around URLs are not needed to get them work on Apache
> >  > Wiki.
> >  >
> >  > 5. May be replace "mid-term evaluation" with "enabling <some test>
> >  > with RTF editor"? I've heard Sun has some RTF demo.
> >  >
> >  > Thank you for your effort!
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Aleksey Lagoshin <ayzen.quwe@gmail.com>
> >  > wrote:
> >  > > Here is my application for harmony-swing-rtf project. It would be great
> >  > if
> >  > >  someone read it and gave advice on how to improve it.
> >  > >
> >  > >
> >  > http://wiki.apache.org/general/AlekseyLagoshin/GSoC2008/harmony-swing-rtf
> >  > >
> >  > >  Many thanks. :)
> >  > >  --
> >  > >  Thanks,
> >  > >  Aleksey
> >  > >
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > --
> >  > With best regards,
> >  >
> >  > Alexei
> >  >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >  Thanks,
> >
> > Aleksey
> >
>