9 Oct
2003
9 Oct
'03
7:52 a.m.
Am Donnerstag, 9. Oktober 2003, 10:24 schrieb Alastair Reid:
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Following Java's lead and using configuration files to localize a system would potentially allow us to ship portable bytecode files around from one platform to another.
Do we really need configuration files for this. Wouldn't the same be possible with a *.Native redirection module? In general, I would be very careful with following Java because, in my opinion, Java solutions are often not very nice (consider, e.g., Java's type system prior to J2SE 1.5).
A general mechanism for accessing configuration strings would be useful.
I would strongly favour mechanisms which give us type safety instead of mechanisms just using strings.
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Wolfgang