Relationship to JSR 291 [was: Re: Bryan's comments]

[Sam Pullara]

Whew.  I thought something had gone south.

Sam

On Jun 8, 2007, at 2:23 PM, Stanley M. Ho wrote:

> Andy Piper wrote:
>> ...
>> 1. The ability to express a feature in terms of its constituent
>> packages. Note that import-by-name doesn't really help here since the
>> actual packages are distributed across multiple modules. What I
>> really want is some kind of feature module that exports these
>> packages to you when you ask for the feature.
>
> Unless I miss something, this is the main use case that import-by-name
> would address. Developers can package all the classes related to a
> feature (e.g. networking, xml, swing, ejb, etc.) into a module, and it
> exports (or reexports from other modules) all the things you need;
> other
> developers who want to use the feature would simply import that module
> by name. In fact, this is how we intend to use the module system to
> modularize various components in the SE platform.
>
> - Stanley