Re: [Swarm-Support] Java

[Marcus G. Daniels]

> I am curious as to the limitations if any of swarm and using Java APIs. To give 
> some outragous examples; if i was to use RMI or XML Dom in swarm, are there any 
> issues i should be aware of.
>  
If there was some thread running to process RMI messages it's necessary 
that the thread does not attempt to call Swarm.  Instead, it should 
queue them up in a Java list (not a native one like 
swarm.collections.ListImpl), and the Swarm thread can later process 
them.  Same goes for GUI stuff or any other multithreaded situations.   
I've used the Java DOM implementation with Swarm before without 
problems, but it was a few years ago.   You could run in to problems if 
you use `async' tree loads, due to Swarm re-entrancy problems as above.

> I did try to read XML into a DOM object and the swarm app hung - to be more 
> precise, i called a class that handled the XML which caused problems. I called 
> the same class from a non-swarm app and there were no problems.

Do you have a test case that demonstrates this?