On Mar 25, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Michael Neale wrote:
> > yeah the impression I get from jigsaw is that it is really there for > platform modularity - all the way to the metal, which is critical for > a whole lot of JRE issues now and in the future. > > Quite a different aim to OSGi (in fact you could use anything and > totally ignore the jigsaw stuff and just enjoy the benefits of a > trimmer platform). > > In generally I don't like the "do something from scratch versus using > what is out there and proven" which seems common in JSRs, but in this > case, it seems that it is such a deep thing that it is worth it. And indeed, I think that is why the previous JSRs were scrapped. They were too general and were revinventing a big wheel. Jigsaw is very focused and trim. > > > On Mar 26, 5:36 am, Joshua Marinacci <[email protected]> wrote: >> Jigsaw is the modularity planned to be built into the JDK. It's >> purpose in life is to make the JRE modular. No other modules system, >> including OSGI, has the ability to do that because they simply can't >> work at a low enough level to make things work (such as JVM >> changes). However, nothing in the proposal prevents other modules >> systems from existing or from interoperating with Jigsaw. In fact, I >> fully expect to see lots of new module systems, designed to address >> different needs, built on top of Jigsaw. (Easy Maven integration >> would >> be nice, for example). >> >> I have no comment on the IBM/HP/Oracle/Apple/McDonalds rumors. >> >> - J >> >> On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:29 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> >> >>> http://neilbartlett.name/blog/2009/03/25/using-suns-jigsaw-may-get-yo >>> ... >> >>> jigsaw is core to Java 7 isn't it? If this guy is right, seems like >>> Java 7 is going to be completely reworked if an acquisition happens. >>> I think he's wrong of course. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
