On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)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.
--
Jeff Ollie
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then
I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the
terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve
them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and
unfairness of the universe."
-- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5: "A Late Delivery from Avalon"