On 1 mars 07, at 06:59, Andreas Raab wrote:
Hi Lex -
Your criticism is well received and understood but unless you have an alternative it is also utterly pointless. We can discuss the various flaws in the Java module system to death but it doesn't change the fact that it is there and it actually works. If you do know of any alternatives that allow for scalable and reasonably secure deployment of code in effectively unknown environments, I'll happily look at them. If they are better than Java, great. It's just ... that so far there are so damn few (if any) alternatives.
In short: What impresses me about the Java solution is not that it's flawless - what impresses me is that it works, that people actually use it to deploy code and this code actually works in the way intended.
But do you think that VW, VA code does not work once deployed? I would like to understand why Jar are better than parcels for example. May be I should post to VW to see what are the problem with deployed code in VW. A parcel in VW has dev and depl prerequisites and it seems to work too.
Stef