What would it be?
- A place for bits of practical, basic (common) code
- Things we wish were part of the JDK
- Things that defy categorization
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So far:
- Automatically-collecting reference types
- Context selectors with security
- Common i18n messages for things like null parameter values
What must it never become?
- A dumping ground (like jboss-common-core)
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A place for categorizable things like:
- Collections (no matter how cool)
- XML utilities
- Filesystem utilities
- These things are probably worthy of their own projects!
How would it be developed?
- Like any other project, mostly...
- But scope would be managed with an iron fist!
- At GitHub
Possible categorized common projects
- Common annotation processing: likely
- Common collections (basic & concurrent): possible
- Common concurrency utilities (lighter atomics, ???): maybe