JSwat 3.0 development update

Nathan Fiedler <[email protected]> Sat, 09 Jul 2005 23:17:14 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.jswat.devel
Organization Blue Marsh Softworks
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It's been over a year since I started rewriting JSwat to run on the 
NetBeans Platform, and so far only an alpha release has been made. What 
is taking so long, you might ask.

In general, much of the time has been spent in refactoring the code from 
top to bottom. The expression evaluator, breakpoints, session 
management, event handling, and so on, have changed significantly from 
the 2.x codeline. One of the more noticable changes has been the use of 
the services mechanism for looking up concrete implementations of the 
various principal objects. This allows a third party to replace 
functionality in JSwat without having to modify its code.

In the next week or so, I intend to make another alpha release, which 
will include support for all of the breakpoint types. By the end of the 
summer, I expect to make a beta release, which will have nearly all of 
the functionality of the 3.0 release.

In the meantime, I've got my work cut out for me. If you have the time 
and are interested in contributing, by all means, get in touch with me.

Thanks

n