-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7/29/10 16:30 , [email protected] wrote: >> Those libraries/frameworks/APIs are complex just because real >> life projects are complex. They are supposed to do something >> useful and actually they do. They represent the richness of the >> Java ecosystem and allow us to do complex things that fit the >> needs of our complex world. > > Yes, java APIs are designed to handle very complex, worst case > scenarios. It's the simple stuff the APIs fail at. And there > really isn't any excuse for this. Why does everyone have their > own StringUtil/FileUtil/XMLUtil classes? Why does apache commons > exist? Because many simple tasks require a ton of code with the > standard APIs. > Right, but I think it has been a deliberate choice - they are foundation APIs. I don't know whether it's right or wrong. The problem is that as soon as you think of things at a higher level, there are different ways to do the same thing and probably a number of alternate solutions make sense. So I'd rather expect that for some common things I'd use third party APIs. I'd say that by providing only foundation APIs Java did not the wrong thing from a technical perspective; they did it wrong from the marketing perspective.
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