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

[Dan Allen]

Cay, could you organize your comments into a spec issue?

Thx,

-Dan

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:18 AM, David Geary <clarity.training at gmail.com>wrote:

> +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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