The Java world loves baroqueness. How else to explain this, which I had to read three times before admitting to myself that it still didn't make any sense.
Meanwhile, there's this really cool Seaside thing that will get you building your web applications really, really fast....
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What don't you understand?
[Mike Brazinski] March 29, 2008 9:02:31.494
What don't you understand? Superpackages? Custom class loaders? The compatibility question?
I'm guessing the question is about superpackages. As far as I understand, they've been added due to visibility concerns. For example, there are methods public in the swing package that are only really needed be visible to some of the "subpackages" but fall out of the normal inherertness pattern.
[] March 29, 2008 10:43:58.042
Superpackages are completely orthogonal to web development.
It'd be like saying "look how there's no standard Smalltalk GUI framework. Instead look at Java: it makes mobile, secure code really easy".
I wasn't relating the two
[ James Robertson] March 29, 2008 12:23:47.270
Comment by James Robertson
I was using Seaside as an example of simplicity. As opposed to the Java world's love of complex answers to simple questions....