The future of FEST-Swing.

Alex Ruiz

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Sep 10, 2012, 3:45:46 AM9/10/12

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Greetings,

A few months ago I made the decision to not develop FEST-Swing anymore. FEST-Swing was (and still is) my favorite module but I was the only maintainer and I really don't have the time and energy to continue working on it.

The good news is that Yvonne volunteered to take care of it. We are going to start development pretty soon (in a month or so).

One of the first things to do is to update FEST-Swing to Java 7. Objections anyone? please let us know.

Cheers,

-Alex

Glen

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Sep 12, 2012, 5:56:37 PM9/12/12

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Great to hear that development isn't going to stop. My only objection would be if the next version wasn't updated for Java 7 :)

Alex Ruiz

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Sep 12, 2012, 6:04:43 PM9/12/12

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Thanks Glen. Any particular reason that prevents you from using Java 7?

Cheers,

-Alex

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Glen

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Sep 12, 2012, 6:21:41 PM9/12/12

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We're running into some slowness, I thought I had it tracked down to a custom event queue (used primarily to handle uncaught exceptions on the EDT) but I think there is something else going on as well. I'll post more once I track it down.

Our project is currently running J6 with a boatload of Fest tests. The goal is to upgrade to J7 and run headless with caciocavallo. I end up with extra failures that I'm trying to determine where the fault lies (fest, cacio, j7 or (very likely) our code)

Alex Ruiz

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Sep 12, 2012, 6:40:29 PM9/12/12

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Thanks Glen. We'll still time to decide whether or not moving to J7 is good for our users. We need time to catch up with the current state of the code base first.

Please let us know if there is anything we can do from our side to help.

Cheers,

-Alex

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Martin

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Sep 13, 2012, 1:58:55 PM9/13/12

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Go Yvonne! We cannot use FEST on OS X under Java 7. Already filed a bug, anxiously waiting for a solution.

Thanks guys!

Alex Ruiz

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Sep 13, 2012, 11:24:22 PM9/13/12

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Hi Martin,

Did you file a bug against Java 7 or FEST?

Cheers!

-Alex

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Martin

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Sep 14, 2012, 8:28:40 PM9/14/12

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https://github.com/alexruiz/fest-swing-1.x/issues/2

Glen

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Sep 19, 2012, 5:17:16 PM9/19/12

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Hi Alex,

I have a test case for our custom event queue. I'm not sure why this is causing grief in J7 and only with the custom queue. It seems to get hung up on this line:

while (eventQueue.peekEvent() != null)

with the peekEvent returning an InvocationEvent caused by a timer blinking the caret in the textfield.

I'm just wondering what process you'd like me to take. Post it here in this group, create a jira at http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/FEST or at github at https://github.com/alexruiz/fest-swing-1.x/issues

Thanks,

Glen