SquirrelJME/SquirrelJME

# 2014/08/22

***DISCLAIMER***: _These notes are from the defunct k8 project which_
_precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26!_
_The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such_
_all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no_
_longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it._

## 06:47

I am sure of the argument to passed to the translator, but not the return type
of it. Perhaps I should return a map which contains output, which may be in
multiple forms and such. And I believe for simplicity that the build plugin
should just invoke my own Java compiler as that would simplify things to a
certain extent. Or perhaps some kind of grouped front end would be better.

## 07:15

A toolbox API would work with interacting with the very basic compiler. I
should just keep the locator code that I wrote (all the beacon stuff) as there
is no real need to rewrite it. However, I am going to modify it to use
channels instead of streams because that is just stronger. Using a FileChannel
will simplify things because I do not need to maintain separate inputs and
outputs, they are just combined.

## 07:50

Using FileChannel has considerably reduced the line count in the Beacon class.