Java's modules rock? (was Re: election details *PLEASE READ*)

Janko Mivšek janko.mivsek at eranova.si
Sat Mar 10 15:44:45 UTC 2007


Hi Stef,

stephane ducasse wrote:

> At berne guys have been working on changeboxes: having multiple versions 
> of a module running in the same image, and I'm trying to digest what I 
> would gain to be able to do that. Because I could build applications as 
> on my mac that uses different version of components without
> having to have them all at the same time in the same applications.
> 
> Did you encounter cases where you would have like to have different 
> versions of the same component/modules running in the same image.

I very real case: a web hosting of many applications for many customers, 
for each customer a bit different one. This can be solved by other means 
too, like namespaces in VW, but noone is quite satisfactory.

Best regards
Janko

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Janko Mivšek
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Smalltalk Web Application Server
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