Still driving off the cliff

[Eric Johnson]

On 2/24/12 10:15 AM, Rémi Forax wrote:
>
> So even in a module world, you need a way to separate platform code 
> from application code
> (it should be better to even have a system which is able to separate 
> the application, from the container,
> from the platform).

I presume that the very notion of "platform" is something that 
modularization should challenge. If you privilege a particular part of 
the code base running in the JVM, then you make other uses of the JVM 
harder and/or burdened by legacy assumptions.

Ideally, the only "privileged" module of the JVM is the ClassLoader 
infrastructure and the bare minimum it needs to do its job.

So even your taxonomy of "application", "container", and "platform" 
seems suspect to me, because these are just (semantically laden) 
arbitrary labels associated with a particular code base. Ideally, we 
recognize that and allow an infinite set of notions here, some which 
might have commonly understood semantics. And if there is a privileged 
one, it should be *very* small.

-Eric.