Scanner object

Visual J# provides an independently developed set of class libraries designed to provide the functionality equivalent to most JDK level 1.1.4 class libraries and includes classes specified in the College Board's Advanced Placement curriculum for Computer Science. Visual J# also supports Microsoft extensions shipped with Microsoft Visual J++ 6.0, including Windows Foundation Classes (WFC) and many other com.ms.* class libraries.

Visual J# is designed to provide class library support functionally equivalent to most of the JDK level 1.1.4 packages that were included in Visual J++ 6.0. Some classes support functionality equivalent to JDK level 1.2 functionality. For a list of these classes in Visual J# 2005, see Additional Class Library Support.

For more information on class library support with visual J# 2005, please refer to
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/67f25kx3(en-us,vs.80).aspx

I would recommend you to try Visual Studio 2005 Beta2 available on msdn.microsoft.com and Visual J# 2005 Express (specially for academia and hobbyists) @ http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vjsharp/

Thanks,

VarunGupta at 2007-9-9 >

I really don't remember the Scanner object from java.utils, what's it supposed to do? (do you have a URL to online JavaDoc about it?)

See GNU Classpath project in case they've implemented it. If they did you can grab their implementation or adapt it. Also you can see Sun's Java sourcecode if you have JBuilder or similar tool (maybe it's available at java.sun.com) and see if you can port that code or rewrite it to J# (don't copy the code verbatim even though it may compile at J#, for copyright reasons)

GeorgeBirbilis at 2007-9-9 >

thanks, found the full URL to the Scanner class description:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Scanner.html

GeorgeBirbilis at 2007-9-9 >

Heard Sun Java has just been opensourced (most of it) under GPL license v.2, see below:

http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/story.jsp
https://phoneme.dev.java.net/source/browse/phoneme/
https://openjdk.dev.java.net/source/browse/openjdk/
https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/downloadsindex.html

So you can grab the Scanner class implementation (and all related code from other classes it uses) from there

I don't remember if the GPL license requires all derivative works to be GPL though, think v.1 of that license does, but v.2 might be more flexible. If it's more flexible, I guess the J# team could also grab that code and add it to J#

GeorgeBirbilis at 2007-9-9 >