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Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:16:15 +0000

[...] Alex Miller (Terracotta) observed (as did I) that probably wasn’t enough … sure it would be cool at first blush, but what would we really gain? Just cycles? And? [...]

By: Alex Miller - Mobile grid apps

Alex Miller - Mobile grid apps — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:10:26 +0000

[...] In the wake of Google Android, people from three different grid vendors have written about mobile grids: me from Terracotta, Bob Lozano from Appistry, and Nikita Ivanov from GridGain. I think Bob and I both had the reaction of…”cool, but what would you do with it?” [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:48:52 +0000

@Carl: Yeah, we use ASM and Aspectwerkz now and you could definitely get most of the way there via compile-time modification and weaving. But I suspect there are still things we would need to hook at runtime. Might be an interesting experiment someday.

By: Carl Rosenberger

Carl Rosenberger — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:15:54 +0000

Hi Alex,

we have a very similar issue around modifying class files for db4o Native Queries but I think there is a very easy solution:

Why don’t you modify class files at compile time, before they get deployed to Android?

If you take a look at an Android project in Eclipse, there are four builders:
“Android Resource Manager”
“Android Pre Compiler”
“Java Builder”
“Android Package Builder”

I haven’t tried this yet myself but I would suppose that you could hook your own builder in there in the right place to modify class files before they get deployed to the emulator or the device.

If you are on the lookout for a library to modify class files: We are quite happy with using bloat. Other possible choices would be ASM, BCEL and Serp.

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59 23 * * 0 flush » לפגוש אנדרואיד סלולרי — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:05:35 +0000

[...] Alex Miller – No Android Army: סיכום מ-וו-ת-ק של אלכס מילר על אנדרואיד(גוגל, סלולר, פלטפורמה גנרית), כולל פגישה עם בוב לי, הוונדערקיד שמאחורי ג’וס(כמו גם אנדרואיד, מסתברא), ואוסף לינקים משכנע. [...]