----- Original Message ----- From: "Dominique Devienne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Ant Developers List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 12:30 PM Subject: RE: Persistent global properties - are they going to be avail abl e?
> On the contrary. ClassLoaders are wonderful. They're just tricky to program > with, but give you tremendous power. No Applets, Servlets, EJB containers, > etc... without them. Anyone doing Java should understand them IMHO. > Similarly, Singletons are useful (there's not in the GoF for nothing), but > one has to remember the twist Java puts on them, as Stefan pointed out. classloaders are invaluable. but they are also evil. -too much of their behaviour is implicit "its how they work", rather than explicit "its in the docs" -when you change security managers and have different classes and singleton things in there it gets messy (which is why we dont use a security manager in non-forked <java>) -all that ext/ stuff is just plain silly -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
