[jsr-314-open] Slashes in resource library names?

[David Geary]

+1. This should definitely be fixed.


david

2010/2/3 Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com>

> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Jason Lee <jason at steeplesoft.com> wrote:
>
>>  On 2/1/10 9:13 AM, Kito Mann wrote:
>>
>> There was a discussion about nested resource library names last year. I
>> would say to search the archives, but I don't know if that's possible.
>> Anyway, here was the outcome:
>>
>>  Ed:
>>>
>>
>>
>>> Yes, you are correct that the resource naming scheme prevents nested
>>> resource libraries.  Nested resource libraries were not on the list of
>>> requirements when we designed this feature back in November of 2007.  We
>>> will not accept this requirement change at this point.
>>
>>
>> Dan:
>>
>> So the spec needs to at least be clear that it's not permitted and suggest
>> the alternative. Several people reading it didn't understand what to do in
>> this case.
>>
>> IMHO, it's a shame that we can't use the nested structure. Seems like a
>> pretty obvious convention instead of configuration thing. I don't know how
>> that got missed in the design process.
>>
>> It would be interesting to find out why that was left out.  Was it simply
>> an oversight, or are there technical reasons for disallowing that? On the
>> surface, it sounds like it would be easy to implement and support, but I've
>> not thought too deeply on the topic.  Maybe that's something we should fix,
>> if we can, for 2.1.
>>
>
> We never got to the bottom of why this was left out, but I think there was
> a general agreement that it should be fixed. Let's discuss when and get an
> issue report filed.
>
> Here is the (not-so-pretty) link to the original discussion:
>
>
> http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0904&L=JSR-314-OPEN&X=3E023C7A0F922F9C1F#16
>
> (that reminds me I have some leaning on the JCP PMO to get to).
>
> -Dan
>
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