On Jun 12, 1:17 pm, Augusto Sellhorn <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm kind of surprised there's not a lot more discussion around Jigsaw > since it includes such fundamental changes, and there's till the whole > controversy around Sun not leveraging OSGi. >
My ill-informed take on this is: - modularity inside Java itself is obviously a good thing - if OSGi was not an appropriate choice for that, then Sun coming up with their own module system is fine for the task of modularising the jvm - bringing the concept of modules to the language itself is also a good thing The issue is when Jigsaw is positioned as something *application* developers might want to leverage, I can't see how that cannot result in fragmentation (for example, finding 3rd party libraries with OSGi metadata is already difficult, asking developers to support OSGi *and* Jigsaw is not going to endear them to the cause of java modularity). The podcast interview was good (they always are:) however the guys should have nailed them more on why we need another module system targeted at application developers (as opposed to intra-vm stuff). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
