reviving Fedora Legacy

[Les Mikesell]

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.

Agreed, but I'm not sure where this point leads.  Fedora has been fairly 
horrible about consistency in those areas too.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com