On Dec 17, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Edward Capriolo wrote:
Java being 100% pure can not understand these OS particulars.
Java is where this *should* be happening. Java knows the OS and has specialized code for each one. The problem is that they chose to take the minimal intersection of all OS's instead of a reasonable set of capabilities. Take groups for instance. Having a method that gets the groups for a given user is right. If a given OS doesn't have groups, returning an empty list is much better than not supporting it on any OS.
-- Owen
