[sword-devel] I want to port the API to Java

[David Overcash]

Hey Guys,
Dave here. Just saying that I am VERY Interested in helping out with this
new branch of the Sword Project seeing as it will help me learn JAVA really
quickly..  Plus, I just got Visual J++ so I was hoping that would still
allow me to compile correctly.

-Dave Overcash

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sword-devel@crosswire.org
[mailto:owner-sword-devel@crosswire.org]On Behalf Of Chris
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 6:51 PM
To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
Subject: Re: [sword-devel] I want to port the API to Java


Aren't we just talking about a Map containing List?

David Burry wrote:

>At 01:55 PM 12/5/2001 -0700, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>
>>       jsword currently requires the jgl container api.  The current,
standard
>>java container library is not extensive enough to contain a multimap
>>equivelant of the c++ stl.  The primary difference between a map and
>>multimap is that a multimap has the ability to iterate thru duplicate
>>key values, whereas a map does not allow duplicate key values.
>>
>
>It's fairly trivial to make a multimap extension of a map, you just have to
come up with some kind of packed form to encode the multi values into one
value and extract them back out again, and do an extension of the API to get
at the added functionality.  If you need more performance than this would
provide, then you could use an external library to get the multimap
functionality instead of core Java stuff only, for instance Berkley DB has
it and they have a Java API too.
>
>Dave
>