On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 06:03, Peter Firmstone wrote: > ... > have to discard incompatible registrars and try again. It would be > pretty easy to set different groups for different Java OS versions etc. > It's an interesting road...the potential is here, but I get the feeling > people just want to focus on the particular platform they're interested > in at the moment. >
For me it's more of an urge to resist architectural astronautics. Solve problems that we actually have now. If someone were to come forward and say "I'd love to adopt River, but I need feature 'x', and then a few other people were to come forward and say "you know, that's a great idea, and it would let me do '[y, z, a , ...]" then we have a something to look at. Of course, there's no problem with an individual exploring a cool idea; just please do it as an 'extra' and not in the core until we all know it's something we want to support as a community. As an aside, that was the idea behind the old Jini Community Process: develop services and/or features to you heart's content. If you believe your thing has wide applicability, then present it to the community. Since you've already developed it and probably used it in the real world, it will be free of the architectural astronautics that an "Expert Committee" would have been subject to if they developed it from scratch (SOAP/WS-* anyone?). Cheers, Greg. -- Greg Trasuk, President StratusCom Manufacturing Systems Inc. - We use information technology to solve business problems on your plant floor. http://stratuscom.com
