You would basically have to pick a canonical regex language if you want a facade and be able to swap the regex library out. Most of them are very similar but they are not the same.
On Sunday, February 1, 2015, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think we'll need some clear performance advantages documented as well as > any compatibility issues. > > This begs for a facade API IMO. I would not want to recode my app just to > test one vs. the other, it should be pluggable. > > Gary > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com > <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > So, once upon a time, there was a regex library here. It was retired, > > presumably on the grounds that it was rendered obsolete by the JRE's > > native support. > > > > However, the JRE's regular expressions have a pretty severe problem; > > they have unbounded (or at least, very, very, bad) execution time for > > some combinations of data and regex. > > > > To cope with this, we ported the Henry Spencer regular expression > > library (as found in TCL) from C to Java. > > > > Thus: https://github.com/basis-technology-corp/tcl-regex-java > > > > Is anyone interested in this? Give or take the possible IP muddle of > > the original C Code, I could grant it easily. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > <javascript:;> > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > <javascript:;> > > > > > > > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com <javascript:;> | ggreg...@apache.org > <javascript:;> > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition > <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >
