[Isolate-interest] second public review of the JSR 121

[Doug Lea]

Patrick Tullmann wrote:
> Great to see JSR-121 is still alive!
> 

Great to see you helping us make it better!

We are considering most of the issues you raised. Here only
the ones that I think we won't:

> Why no support for open files and open pipe ends in Messages?  

Because we want to get this spec finalized :-)
These are among the issues that kept us from doing so.
So we figure that we can always add them in Version 2 if
there is both demand and willingness to implement by providers.


> 
> Could you side-step some of this by adding a parameterized 'put'
> method:
>    public static <T> void newMessage(<T> type);
> (Again, I'm totally ignorant of this new fangled parameterization
> syntax, so perhaps this is obviously bunk.)

Not quite bunk, but not too helpful :-) People would need
to use more complicated creation expressions for no good
reason that I can think of.

-Doug