I used to do that, but looking at it now, I am asking "What's the cost and what's the value?".
The cost in terms of disk is negligible these days - You can't buy a drive <120GB these days, so what's a few hundred KB, or even a few MB on disk? Especially compared to the 80MB of struts or spring? I'm not sure how class loaders deal with this, I suspect if they load a jar, they load all of the resources, not just what's needed. That *could* be a bit more costly in terms of startup time, and free memory for the application, but again, sheesh, when you have 4-8GB of RAM in a server, what's a few K here and there? I suspect you'll leak more than that running firefox. ;-) The value seems kind of iffy. I guess if you wanted to use embedded comments for runtime code generation, this is the only real way to do that. But IMO, since we have annotations, that's not a great idea. It might help overcome some of Java's retarded reflection limitations (who needs parameter names, anyway?), but again - an annotations can do that, too. My gut reaction is that it's not a good idea, but I can't really quantify why. :-) Larry On 10/26/07, Clinton Begin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I mean deploying your .java files to production alongside your .class files > and having it available on the classpath at runtime. > > > > com/yourdomain/yourapp/SomeClass.java > > com/yourdomain/yourapp/SomeClass.class > > > > I hope that's more clear. > > > > Clinton > > > > > > > > From: agodinhost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: October-26-07 6:17 AM > To: dev@ibatis.apache.org > Subject: Re: Deploying Source Code > > > > > > I don´t know if I really understood what you mean. > > > > > > If you are just talking about the iBates part of code, to give a more > examples, it is okay. > > > But if you are talking about the whole application this can be a > nightmare!!! > > > > > > Please, explain better your idea. > > > > > > Woody > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Clinton Begin > > > To: dev@ibatis.apache.org > > > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:41 PM > > > Subject: Deploying Source Code > > > > > What does anyone/everyone think of deploying their Java source code with > their application? > > > > Thoughts, ideas, fears, absolutely not??? > > > > Why? > > > > Cheers, > > Clinton
