On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
Well it really depends on what I was building. If I was developing a new desktop application what you say might make sense. If I was developing an e-commerce web site you'd be nuts to do that.
But then you'd probably use java to isolate yourself as much as possible from silly API changes in OS and distributions... And fedora hasn't been a great place to use java.
I'm not a Java developer (I've written a few "Hello World" type things but nothing more complex than that) but from what I've seen from deploying a few Java-based systems is that while the "core" Java API may be stable, "real-world" Java systems have dependencies on things like Tomcat/Apache or other similar systems and are highly dependent on particular versions of those apps and associated libraries.