Jeremy Boynes wrote:
[snip]
Daniel John Debrunner wrote:
The issue is that today this is fully supported because the client and
engine do not share code.
Some of the code sharing approaches regress Derby in this area by not
supporting this, or require class path ordering for it to be supported.
Some of the others support this by defining compatibility contracts
and eliminate the need for classpath ordering by not duplicating classes.
Can't you have the situation where common 10.2 and common 10.3 are both
included in the classpath (by accident, as Dan brings up)? Wouldn't you
end up with order dependencies then?
[snip]
Let's recharacterize this a little. What we are contemplating with
code sharing is extracting common functionality out into a library. By
saying that we are not willing to accept any solution where a
component depends on a library we are shutting ourselves off from
using any external library or any functionality not provided by Derby
itself. This dooms us forever to reinvent any functionality that could
be provided by other projects.
For example, there are libraries out there that support bytecode
generation, JMX for management, high-performance concurrency on Java
1.4, regexp processing to support SQL patterns, ... By saying we are
not prepared to incorporate them but instead need our own versions
that can be morphed for client and server we dramatically reduce the
functionality that can be made available to users.
So let me ask this: do our users want more functionality faster by
allowing the use of libraries, or a completely standalone solution
with tight control over the entire implementation?
You make a compelling argument here. I already would like to use stuff
in Jakarta Commons (I haven't brought it up yet, one thing at a time).
It seems a good Apache Java citizen should make use of what's in Jakarta
Commons rather than build stuff themselves. And I think Jeremy's right
that we will run into this same configuration situation with these guys.
Jeremy, how *do* the users of commons avoid accidentally using a version
they are not compatible with (e.g. a consumer depends on new features
that aren't available in an older version of the common jar file)?
David
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