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>From ###@###.### Sat Jul 26 16:30:26 1997
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 01:30:22 +0200 (METDST)
To: graham.hamilton@Eng
From: ###@###.### (Ingo Helbig)
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Subject: SAP requests for Java
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[...]

I just wanted to remind you about the things that would make our live a
lot easier, in particular the live of the engineers who are developing
our first "official" Java based product, the SAPGUI for Java, which will
be our Java based graphical user interface for the R/3 System.

1. Ensure that the order of the methods returned from
java.lang.Class.getMethods() is always the same.
2. Give us acces to the index of a method in the array returned by
Class.getMethods(). A method java.lang.reflect.Method.getIndex() would
do it.

These two features would allow us to cache a method's index and fetch a
method by calling Class.getMethodss()[index] instead of
Class.getMethod(name, params) which is way to slow.

3. Make Method.invoke() and Field.set(), get() fast.

We are using the dynamic method/field access extensively because our GUI
is able to embed any arbitrary Java Component.

4. Events: We need a way to listen to any event that a Component fires.
We are using Larry's embeddedEvents right now to do that, but this gives
us a security violation when we run in the browser because a new
ClassLoader is instantiated.

Please let me know if you have questions. You can also reach me by
phone: (415) 287-3940.

Regards,
Ingo.

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