[jsr294-modularity-eg] Runtime model

[Andreas Sterbenz]

Bryan Atsatt wrote:
> 
> So. Let me invert the question: why *not* support runtime binding?

Earlier [1] you said:

 > While I think development time class rewriting is likely a decent
 > solution, it would be unreasonably complex/expensive if deferred to
 > runtime. Does anyone have a use case for binding legacy classes to a
 > superpackage at runtime?

Do you have a use case now? If not, we should not let code at runtime 
change the semantics of application class files and avoid the 
complications and other problems that would introduce.

Andreas.


[1] 
http://altair.cs.oswego.edu/pipermail/jsr294-modularity-eg/2007-June/000105.html