Re: comparison between BCEL and ASM

> I like it, a bold statement :)
> 
> So, questions to the BCEL community. 

...the point is - there is only a *very* small
developer community but a large user community

I think the guys left over on bcel-dev are more
here for maintenance than development.

> 1) Does BCEL have use-cases over ASM? I think Eugene's statement is a
> healthy, competitive one and it'd be good to hear if there's
> disagreement.

I haven't explored all areas with ASM yet.
...but for the ones I touched it felt quick
and easy to use.

Especially with the great eclipse view.

One thing I really dislike though was the
heavy use of strings on the API.

> 2) If Eugene is right, 
> 
> a) are there features in the planning to give BCEL a use-case?

I've changed the javaflow API so it's now
easy to hook in an ASM implementation of
the bytecode rewriting. This will be my
use-case for comparison.

I can probably say more after that's done.

> b) should the focus be on fixing bugs for existing users instead of
> adding features that ASM has already.

Yepp ...I think that's the way to go for now.

cheers
--
Torsten

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin)

iD8DBQFCfrKcBGM6V3wgCUERAu/tAKCPq8Fl1SOmfcBU4LswstYyfY2PDACdEznP
KKY8uBprD4m1cWgd2vzwd+k=
=Ucey
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----