Rodrigo Kumpera wrote: >>>In terms of extensibility, the
classlib is mostly a dead-end, an >>>end-user should be better
using some SPI. But good modularity keeps >>>the software
entropy low. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>I am not sure what you are
referring to with "classlib" here. >> >> > >The j2se lib, eg
what classpath is implementing. > > In that case, I agree that
extensibility of the class library is a dead end, but that
doesn't mean structuring it as a nice collection of modules with
well defined relationships is a dead end. >Well, the classpath
folks seen to be doing just fine without an OSGi >like
container. There are some implications for building such thing,
>first is the fact that a big part would need to live in a
>"container-less" enviroment, as it would be hard to read a
manifesto >file without the package available. ;) > > It just
depends on how you want to look at. I guess by that definition
Sun would be doing fine too, but I have butt my head against
Sun's implementation because it doesn't expect class