On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:05:14AM +0100, Bert Verhees wrote:
> > Maybe some clarification will help. Is there a place where you have
> > made your Java implementation open source and available to others for
> > assessment?
> >
> (I do not, at this moment want to publish my code. I worked two years on
> my code, I keep it for myself until there will be a good reason to
> publish it)
That is your very right but some people think it is
unfortunate.
> Do we need the code from other participants before we can discuss a good
> way to implement the ideas behind it?
We don't need it but it usually helps. Additionally an
existing implementation may draw the interest of more
people.
> to the Java-kernel. ("the way is important" (Buddhist saying)).
Well, not really. The Way IS, that's all.
> Every month or few months, we see emails appear from people the ask
> where to start, or how to do persistence.
> They always get an answer. From some of these people we never hear
> again, because, I can only guess, maybe, they give up.
Wouldn't it be helpful to tell them:
Well, here's Rong's work (URL) and here's Bert's more
complete code based upon Rong's.
With that they would be halfway there. Of course, the
existing code may not be the One True Way. But then there is
no One True Way (there's only the Way, you might argue). So
they will fork/develop further/rewrite and the community
would go from two to >two implementations. The more
implementations the easier it may get to define a well-done
API. That's one approach, anyway.
Karsten
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