On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Alan Williamson wrote: > > ||| That's how I'm able to do it, then? I don't modify my > ||| source for each > ||| platform - I send .jars and .wars and .ears across the > ||| wire. And use them. > ||| I must be REALLY SPECIAL. Thanks for the ego boost - I must > ||| be unique. > ||| > ||| And to be clear, I don't do simple "hello, world" apps. I do > ||| cross-platform, distributed applications. > > well all i can say is congratulations. <no sarcasm> Sadly i have not had > the same experience. Disparity in even the simplest Servlet API calls means > i have to thorougly test with every App Vendor i intend to deploy to.
Sure. That's somehow rectified by deploying as .exe, of course. I have to test with multiple vendors, too, which does a lot to reinforce my idea that Sun doesn't know how to write specs. I look at it as a learning experience: "Here's why to avoid crap like Tomcat." > For example; getResourcePath() does not operate the same with all App > vendors; so something as innocent as that. Thats just one example, i can > give you tons of others. The J2EE test harness all the app vendors have to > pass doesn't cover half of what it should do. Its a joke. But thats > another debate for another day. [ps the PetStore doesn't even run on them > all unmodified! ;-)] What are you using getResourcePath() for? I've used it ONCE, and removed it when it turned out not to be worth beans. I don't see why it's even in the spec except as a sop to ... erm... less-abled people who can't use resources well, or realise that in J2EE you don't always have a path to have resources ON. (If this is you, I take it all back, I'm only joking. If it's not, I'll expect you to go "Yeah, you're right. You're the champ," or "Preach on, brother!") The Petstore is and always has been a joke. It annoys the ever-lovin' ... HECK out of me that Sun has allowed people to use that as anything other than an overblown example of patterns. See http://java.enigmastation.com/Q684 for more. > > ||| > [ps just read your previous post thats come in ... sorry > ||| you've lost me on > ||| > the IMPOSSIBLE paragraph, absolutely no idea where you > ||| are going there] > ||| > ||| It's called sarcasm, since I (usually) assume my readers > ||| aren't complete morons. :) > > aaah assumption; you know what they say about that? mother of all f**k ups! > > ;-) I think sarcasm fits that, too. :) --------------------------------------------------------- Joseph B. Ottinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://enigmastation.com IT Consultant ____________________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying ____________________________________________________
