Thursday, January 25, 2007

JSR 291 and weird stuff

Google's blog search is cool, but it sometimes turns up weird stuff. Take ocean's recent thinking on the curse of specifications in general and JSR 291 in particular.

Actually 'thinking' may be an exaggeration, but the blog does raise some questions:
  1. Why does it link back to the JSR review ballot of March 2006? Things have moved on.
  2. If specifications are so divisive, are there any non-divisive alternatives?
  3. Is rolling your own module system from class loaders really better than using an existing module system that others have taken the time to hone? Presumably ocean codes in assembler on principle.
But I should lighten up, as our American cousins are fond of saying, ignore the weird stuff, and enjoy the blog's link to WS-DeathStar.
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2 comments:

  1. AlBlue9:48 AM

    Yeah, and a few of my blog entries have turned up on *.sports-guru.com, which just appears to be trying to milk AdWords revenue by appearing to have lots of blog entries. If you see posts like "I'm thinking of proposing a tutorial at EclispeCon" or "Happy 2007 everyone!" then they originally come from http://alblue.blogspot.com and in a feed should say they are by "Alex Blewitt". If they say "from Unknown" then that's blog-copy-spam.

    Still, I've reported it to the Google Spam page. You never know, might even work ...

    PS Glyn; if you don't want the link to my blog there in your comment, feel free to remove it.

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  2. Glyn10:02 AM

    > PS Glyn; if you don't want the link to my
    > blog there in your comment, feel free
    > to remove it.

    I don't mind the link, but note that blogger doesn't let me edit others' comments, which is right and proper. I can accept or reject them, that's all.

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