sviperll / chicory

Simple Java library to cover the shortcommings of JDK

Chicory: Core Libraries for Java

This is an umbrella project that unifies several libraries. All libraries provides some basic most generic functionality.

This package is used to share generic code between more specialized projects.

All provided libraries tend to have as simple implementation as possible, basically some wrapping above Java SE.

Child projects

• chicory-core

  Basic utilities to compensate shortcomings of Java SE.

• chicory-stream

  Stream processing like Java 8 streams, but works with Java 6 and have slightly different desing.

  • Chicory-stream provides sequential-only streams, no parallel support.
  • Chicory-stream allows easy forking and reuse of streams, unlike Java 8 where stream can be used only once.
  • Chicory-stream automatically and transparently opens and closes resources each time stream is used, unlike Java 8 where stream should be manually closed.

• chicory-time

  Simple facade for Java SE date-time classes to provide functionality close to Joda-time.

• chicory-text

  Rudimentary tools needed for text handling.

• metachicory

  Metaprogramming tools. Useful for annotation processors implementation.

• chicory-environment

  Not portable part of chicory. This package should be as small as possible. Classes used for talking to operating system.

License

Chicory is under BSD 3-clause license.

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Changelog

Since 0.18

• Transform text-formats package into chicory-text.
• Rename packages to use more generic naming with less specific names.

Since 0.17

• Introduce metachicory and text-formats packages
• Move easycli4j, repository4j and multitasking4j to independent projects

chicory's Issues

com.github.sviperll.meta.Visitor has RunTime retention

After updating our OSGi based application to use the new ADT4j 1.0 I discovered I needed to embed/export the metachicory package due to com.github.sviperll.meta.Visitor having runtime retention. Is this required or can it be relaxed and new versions of both be released?

None of the ADT4j's generated code uses the annotation, but I'm not sure if its used at runtime for any other projects...