> Firstly, I think we still do not understand exactly what Joe means by > a component module. Even now, 6 months after Crested Butte.
What's not to grok? Embrace divide and conquer and realize that a class is too fine grained. How we need higher abstractions where it's easy to make a "kit" that fits together out of any particular context. > Flex sounds very much like, KDE originally architectures, what was it? > SLOT and Connections or something. It was like a message bus inside a > Graphics User Interface toolkit. Signals and Slots, the essence of Qt. Toolkit also available for Java through Jambi: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-2007/jw-08-qtjambi.html?page=2 > I think what we need in the language is group binding. See above and I > claim not to be a language designer. Known as multi-casting, no? /Casper --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
