Development/ReWrite2010

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Revision as of 16:16, 25 February 2011

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Milestones 3 What is left to be done and known issues 4 Building the code

Introduction

The intended objectives and architecture are documented in the RxTX_Rewrite.pdf document in the ReWrite2010 of the in the source repository. To summarise:

Provide a reference implementation of the javax.comm package using open source code. The existing version 2.x source code will be completely re-written.

Design Objectives:

• Reference implementation – strictly adheres to the javax.comm API.
• Small footprint - Java and C code should strive to be as small as possible.
• Good performance – Java code should provide the shortest path possible to the native code. Native code should provide the shortest path possible to the underlying system.
• Fault tolerant - Java and C code should handle I/O errors gracefully, providing good error recovery.
• Proven – Java unit tests should achieve 100% code coverage.
• Compatible – the rewrite should be a drop-in replacement for the javax.comm library.

The rewrite was discussed in a mailing-list thread.

Milestones

What is left to be done and known issues

• Java Unit Tests
• Native code for MacOS X and Unix systems

Building the code