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

[Dan Allen]

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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