On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 14:00:37 -0500, Dave Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Here here. I think of it this way. Its illegal for me to commit a crime.
>It is also just as illegal for me to convince someone to commit that crime
>on my behalf. To me repackaing an illegal act into a helper class is just
>as illegal an call. The vast majority of these requirements are set for
>WORA reasons. For instance,
>
>No static members (containers may use multiple vm's)
>No singletons (containers may use ClassLoaders)
>No File I/O (Underlying OS may have no file system)
>
>Moving into libraries affects none of these WORA issues. You can say,
well,
>I can rewrite the helper classes, but this ISNT WORA. Heck, I can rewrite
>my C++ code too.
>
>As well, no one says the police have to watch every move I make to prevent
>me from commiting a crime, but eventually the odds are Ill be punished for
>it. Can you commit a crime and get away with it (file I/O)? Yup. Doesnt
>mean its less of a crime.
Interesting view. Sooo, databases aren't allowed to do file I/O then by your
reasoning? ;-) Note that there are some databases that run in-VM so there's
no socket connection between the JDBC driver and the database.
I see what you're getting at, but it's a somewhat flawed argument given the
above.
/Rickard
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