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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:07:35 +0100
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Subject: Re: Classloaders and extensions
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and even more important a website can be updated to a new version in a 
transactional fashion without the need to redeploy the whole web 
application.

this is not only convenient for development, but also vital for a 
productive environment.

regards
  marcel

Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2005, at 7:29 PM, Edgar Poce wrote:
> 
>> Regarding the classloading part the only use case I can think of is  
>> using it during development, I would try it and if it makes me more  
>> productive I'm all for it, that's all I need to adhere to a new  
>> technology during development. But when it comes to distributed  
>> applications I don't think it's a good idea. What's the difference  
>> between the case commented by Robert and the imaginary scenario  from 
>> the incubator proposal?. I'm surely missing something here.  Could 
>> anyone shed some light?
> 
> 
> It isn't for distributed applications.  It is for version-controlled
> applications, as in versioning an entire website including its
> services so that the entire site can be moved back in time if needed.
> 
>> And regarding the plugin framework, why would I use my content  
>> repository as a key player in my component architecture?, is it  
>> necessary/desirable?, Felix says everything is content, is it?, is  it 
>> a new architecture that one might call Content Oriented  Architecture?
> 
> 
> Web architecture.  REST architectural style.  "Everything is a resource
> and all important resources should be identifiable with a URI."
> Does that ring any bells?
> 
> ....Roy
> 
>