----- Original Message -----
From: Maxim Kizub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: JDK 1.3 in beta
> Looks like Sun becomes more and more stupid.
> Instead of method referenced they added inner classes.
> And, needed to generate them at runtime, they didn't fix
> the situation, but added ability to generate wrapper classes
> at runtime. :-( Did you see their example?
Generating wrappers at runtime is a very useful feature for ORB
implementations. Right now all ORBs that do stub generation on the fly, do
it the hard (and till 1.3 the only) way - generating the bytecode and
loading it via classloader. This is an error-prone and unpleasant process,
and it would be quite good if someone like Sun implemented a useful subset
cleanly. From the first looks I like it.
> And where are generic types and work-by-contract - most
> voited RFEs?
Generic types are supported in GJ - one of the GJ developers is from
JavaSoft, and, what's even more interesting, if you look inside the new
javac (v8 EA on http://developer.javasoft.com), it has a GJ frontend too. So
I would be really disappointed if this doesn't make its way in the next
version of javac.
Also note that 1.3 beta does not include much compiler modifications
(AFAICS), and both your requests deal almost exclusively with modifying
javac.
Oleg
