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