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From: "Renaud BECHADE" <renaud.bechade@numerix.com>
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Subject: RE: [arch] VM/Classlibrary interface
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 16:13:02 +0900
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Nor do I disagree...
I /love/ modularity too.

RB

"Qui ne dit mot consent"
(who tells nothing agrees)

-----Original Message-----
From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:geirm@apache.org] 
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 7:13 AM
To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: [arch] VM/Classlibrary interface

Heh.  I agree.  I just was too busy in the VM/class library fire- 
fight :)

So, given that my foray into architecture discussion was such a  
stunning success, would you like to start the discussion of such a  
thing might be approached?  (Please change the subject, of course...)

geir

On Jun 8, 2005, at 3:01 PM, Richard S. Hall wrote:

> Apparently, only you and I agree.  ;-)
>
> Dalibor Topic wrote:
>
>
>> Richard S. Hall wrote:
>>
>>
>>> To me, this is the point. I would like to see all of the  
>>> libraries built on to of the JVM to be packaged in a more module- 
>>> like fashion, so that their exports and imports are explicit.  
>>> There would be many benefits if this were done, rather than  
>>> relying on the current approach of assuming that everything is  
>>> accessible.
>>>
>>
>>
>> +1
>>
>>
>>> So, from my point of view, it is definitely going in the right  
>>> direction to make libraries understand which class loader they  
>>> should use to get to their own "module's" classes, as opposed to  
>>> just assuming they can get them from any application class loader.
>>>
>>
>>
>> +1 to that, too.
>>
>> cheers,
>> dalibor topic
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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