River Progress

[Peter Firmstone <ji...@zeus.net.au>]

After what seems like a marathon, I've just finished converting 
remaining service implementations to the new com.sun.jini.start.Starter 
interface, no longer is 'this' allowed to escape during construction.

The only remaining instances I'm aware of are the examples, I looked at 
fixing them, but lets face it, we need better examples that demonstrate 
best practises, any volunteers?

When I set out to refactor the qa suite, I never expected to find so 
many issues, including those found in the main distribution.  Findbugs 
was helpful to identify issues, other issues revealed themselves as work 
progressed.

I haven't of course fixed all the issues, but I can say that things are 
better, don't forget most of this code was written prior to the current 
Java Memory Model, so this is more or less just houskeeping.

I've got a little more testing to do, then it's time merge Sim's work 
back in from trunk and branch for release.

To ensure we've got the highest quality build possible, we can allow 
additional time for release candidate testing.

Thanks for all the support, I understand this hasn't been the easiest 
process.

After the next release I recommend we focus more on code simplification 
and correctness to really make our codebase solid, so it's easier to 
understand and develop, if we're fortunate enough, wiser, more 
experienced (not to mention modest) developers will be tempted to jump 
in and do some really great work.

Regards,

Peter.