Re: Question about code contribution

> First of all, thank you very much for this very useful library.
> Until lately it was absolutly sufficient and without bug in the
> area I needed it.

Nice to hear :)

> However, I'm developing a tool named Class Dependency Analyzer
> (http://www.programmers-friend.org/CDA/) which uses BCEL to read
> .class files and extract the relevant dependency information.

Sounds familiar :)

http://vafer.org/projects/dependency/howto.html

> With the latest version (V1.6) of my tool I also support Java 5
> classes. My tool particularly needs information about the new
> annotation, enum and generic types to compute all dependencies.
>
> Therefore I modified (mainly extend) the code of BCEL 5.1.
>
> Now I want to know if you are interested in getting my changes to
> put them into the official BCEL? It would be a first step into the
> direction of supporting Java 1.5 class files.
> If yes, then I will first adapt my changes to the new BCEL 5.2 before
> sending them to you.
> I have a detailed log on what changes I did. So it must be feasable
> to integrate my code without too much effort.
>
> What do you think about it?

This sounds great ...actually we have a Google Summer of Code student
working on that at the moment. I suggest you subscribe to bcel-dev and
coordinate efforts with him. After that the easiest way would be to
provide patches to trunk.

cheers
--
Torsten