Previously, I used a shell script to extract modification date ranges
from the Git history, but that was complicated and unreliable, so now
every file just gets the same year range in its copyright header. If
someone needs to know when a specific file was modified and by whom,
they can look at the Git history themselves; no need to include it
redundantly in the header.
We were not properly converting dots to slashes internally for package names
and we did not properly handle Method.getAnnotations and
Method.getAnnotation(Class<T>) on methods without any annotations.
Added some tests to cover these cases.
Rather than try to support mixing Avian's core classes with those of
an external class library -- which necessitates adding a lot of stub
methods which throw UnsupportedOperationExceptions, among other
comprimises -- we're looking to support such external class libraries
in their unmodified forms. The latter strategy has already proven
successful with OpenJDK's class library. Thus, this commit removes
the stub methods, etc., which not only cleans up the code but avoids
misleading application developers as to what classes and methods
Avian's built-in class library supports.
In order to facilitate making the VM compatible with multiple class
libraries, it's useful to separate the VM-specific representation of
these classes from the library implementations. This commit
introduces VMClass, VMField, and VMMethod for that purpose.
This simplifies the JNI implementation for looking up methods. It also
fixes a bug where an applications calls GetStaticMethodID with class A
and then calls CallStatic<Type>Method with class B which extends A. The
old code would look in the wrong method table and thus call the wrong
method.
