Re: What is the purpose of .jj files?

Posted by Mansour on Mar 23, 2012; 11:29am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/What-is-the-purpose-of-jj-files-tp4498087p4498503.html

Scott,

thank you for the clarification.


On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Scott Gray <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Mansour,
>
> I was talking more about framework features that go unused, you're talking about parts of the framework that are fundamental to the framework itself.
>
> For example my understanding of the sql component was that it would allow SQL queries against the delegator e.g. SQL -> Delegator -> SQL to database.  I don't know if it was ever finished and I don't know if anyone knows how to use it, it certainly isn't used anywhere in the applications.  Even if it were finished, I don't know that it needs to be in the framework but then it probably doesn't help that I don't really understand its purpose.
>
> Regards
> Scott
>
> On 23/03/2012, at 11:59 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
>
>> Scott you are right. But the components wont compile without them.
>> I recommend, refactor the components first, then we can tell what is
>> needed and what is not.
>>
>> For example, base and start wont compile separately. Either move the
>> classes that are needed by base to base, or merge them for now, until
>> we know for sure what is needed by other component.
>>
>> I mean by wont compile separately, is you can not compile base as a
>> component, then included in the classpath while compiling "start"
>> Same thing applies to "start".
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Scott Gray <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> My general rule of thumb is that if the application components aren't using it then it doesn't belong in the framework.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Scott
>>>
>>> On 23/03/2012, at 9:07 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
>>>
>>>> can we remove them? If we get rid of this we will be able to clean a few things (i.e. remove $OFBIZ_HOME/lib/build/javac and a few more tasks)
>>>>
>>>> Jacopo
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 23, 2012, at 9:00 AM, Scott Gray wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I think they're for Adam's sql component, no idea if that work was ever finished.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Scott
>>>>>
>>>>> On 23/03/2012, at 8:58 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> What is the purpose of the two .jj files we have in OFBiz (Parser.jj and JSON.jj) and the associated ant tasks "ofbiz-javacc" and "ofbiz-jjtree"?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jacopo
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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