Swing When You’re Winning

I had some free time while I did a bootstrap of new GCC including the BC branch merge. My Computer is not very fast. It needs over two hours for a full bootstrap. So I decided to hack a little bit on javax.swing. I looked into the japi results for the javax.swing package and saw many methods for JList, JTable and JTree missing that should be fairly easy to implement. I added them to one of my GNU classpath trees where I use the very fast jikes compiler to build. I added 72 missing methods and fixed some others while the GCC bootstrap was lasting. And I compiled GNU classpath several times in that time too. So all methods I added are actually okay. And they are all pretty obvious. Mostly missing property accessor methods or to simplify access to associated classes. Very productive after all.

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