Currently, Frame2 does not work on Macs. This, of course, is due to the fact that there is no (easily) available Java 6 implementation for MacOS. I’ve been trying to decide if this is an issue or not. Reasons why it might be an issue: I use a Mac for most of development, and I [...]
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Adding Features Uncovers Old Bugs
This seems to happen to me no matter what project I’m on. I try to implement a simple (or not so simple) feature and end up exposing at least one bug that’s been hiding around for quite some time. As an illustration, I was adding a feature to Frame2 today to allow some parameters to [...]
View Post api, debugging, design, frame2, java, open source, oss, test-driven-development, web-application-frameworkFindBugs Is Even Cooler Than I Thought
I’ve mentioned before that I’m using FindBugs to help make sure that the Frame2 code is up to snuff. The Eclipse compiler can catch a lot of things, bug FindBugs has some neat tricks up its sleeve to find things that Eclipse can’t. FindBugs uses static analysis of the code to search for patterns that [...]
View Post debugging, eclipse, findbugs, frame2, java, open source, ossMoving Into the Modern Age
The last official release of Frame2 happened in January of 2006, and was Java 1.4 specific. I am currently making changes to the codebase to take advantage of all of the improvements that Java 5 and 6 brought. The process is roughly this: Configure Eclipse with the latest available JDK. Turn on all compiler warnings. [...]
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