Re: Revisiting "lost codebases"
Peter Jones <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.java.sun.jini |
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| Message-ID | <20070514221347.GI8509@east> |
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 12:29:06PM +0200, Mark Brouwer wrote:
>
>> Here is what I understood from reading section 6.2:
>>
>> 1) The "big happy class loader" solves type conflicts but has the
>> following drawbacks:
>
> As an aside I'm rather curious who came up with the name "big happy
> class loader" as to me it doesn't represent one big happy class loader.
> I actually wonder whether that name was meant to be sarcastic ...
Yes, I'd say that the phrase was always meant to be at least
conditionally or suggestively ironic in its use of the "big happy"
idiom ("We might look like one big happy family on the outside,
but...").
-- Peter
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