Exploring JSR310 - prep for coding

Where to get the code - prep for coding

The HG source repo in OpenJDK is here :hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/threeten/threeten/jdk
or you can just :
run > hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/threeten/threeten/jdk threetenjdk
(beware this is the entire JDK, big)

Or just download the latest OpenJDK 8

http://jdk8.java.net/download.html

Project home

Project home is : http://openjdk.java.net/projects/threeten/

Mailing list

 The mailing list for the project is here : https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/threeten-develop

 Getting it built

The project is built with Apache Ant.
run >ant

At the time of writing it produced one JAR
build/threeten-0.7.0-alpha.jar

Java docs

Java docs are hosted on the OpenJDK site : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/threeten-javadoc/index.html

JSR 310 Use Cases

It's alway nice to see that a piece of software has use cases attached.

Installing artifact into Maven

>mvn install:install-file -Dfile=threeten-0.7.0-alpha.jar -DgroupId=javax     -DartifactId=time -Dversion=0.7.0-alpha -Dpackaging=jar

In my next blog

I will publish some source code of the issues addressed in JSR310 compared to the current Date and Time API.
I will do this via JUnit4