[ts-gen] Experiments with Java API

R P Herrold herrold at owlriver.com
Wed Oct 7 12:48:41 EDT 2009


On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Ken Feng wrote:

> Wow, EClientSocket.java >is< a nightmare of a file - with layers of
> crud piling up version after version...  ...not much fun maintaining a
> parallel version in C++, I can imagine.

don't think of it as 'crud' so much as backward support, and 
accretive development ["Want a new feature: no problem -- slap 
another layer in there and bump the version"] ;)

> Although it's not very clean or pretty, I am finding the Java sample
> client code very easy to understand and to work with, so far...

chuckle ... to each their own poison  ;)  I assume IB 
development staff use some GUI tool such as eclipse to manage 
this.  The clarity of a TUI development environment is to 
others the bane of typing all the time.

-- Russ herrold


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