| Yeah, I knew this, but in spite of me forwarding numerous assertions from | this list and the struts list, the tech lead of our dev group (I'm doing a | consulting gig here) insists that explicit imports speed up the runtime. | The only time I could see this being true is the first time a JSP is called | that declares scores of imports. | | Mark |
hi! it's sure that's your tech lead is wrong: quote from "Java Rules" by Douglas Dunn, Addison-Wesley 2002, page 75f.: 2.5.4 How Import Declarations are Used by a Compiler Import statements exist only in source code. They are used exclusively by the compiler to disambiguate type names and search for class files. btw, it's quite simple to proof that with tools like javap or jad. -mw ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
