“Well, technically speaking, the operation is brain damage, but on a par with a night of heavy drinking. Nothing you’ll miss.”
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I am going to apologize early for this being on the technical end of posting. If you are interested in technology by all means proceed, if not, bugger off!
I have a bit of a lull currently and have been able to do a little research and discovery today. I having been looking into some open source Java projects like Tapestry, Lucene, Spring, etc. I love the Java community and how much they simply donate to the greater good. In reading a lot about these frameworks and how they are implemented in Java, I am reminded of a pet peeve I have with Java.
Why is the package structure (aka. namespace) a physical structure instead of a logical one?
This just absolutely annoys me! I would love to know why this design decision was made. It makes no sense to me. You would think the runtime would be able to handle this. I hate the fact that you have to have the physical folder structure to jar up a component set. Think about it for a second, once the classes are in the jar the packages basically become logical in nature. If anyone has any ideas or friends at Sun that could explain this I would be most appreciative.
Sorry for the technical nature but it bugs me. I want to know, help me out.