[jsr294-modularity-eg] Practical points

[Peter Kriens]

Would it be possible to get a short introduction of all participants,  
so we know who we are talking to?

My intro:

I am Peter Kriens. I am currently acting as the OSGi Technical  
Director, Evangelist, and general gopher for the OSGi. From this  
position I am personally highly interested what happens with  
modularity in the Java language. I think it is quite exciting that we  
have the chance to modify the Java language to add (more) modularity.  
I am looking forward to work with everybody on this list to add this  
important feature to the programming language we all hold so dear, and  
do it right.

Kind regards,

	Peter Kriens



On 27 jan 2009, at 05:19, Alex Buckley wrote:

> 294 experts,
>
> I will imminently send 1) a statement of the problems Sun would like  
> to solve in modular development, and 2) a set of requirements  
> concerned with these problems that lay out Sun's interest in  
> language work.
>
> Overall, I would like to have an EDR by mid-April and a reference  
> implementation by mid-May at the latest. The RI in Sun's javac and  
> JVM will connect to the Jigsaw module system shortly to appear in  
> OpenJDK. The compiler/JVM interface to a module system is in scope  
> for 294 and I hope to discuss that as soon as the language  
> requirements are done. Hopefully the language requirements will only  
> take a couple of weeks. (I will be out-of-office Feb 5-12 for FOSDEM  
> and other travel.)
>
> The jsr294-modularity-observer list is now writable. All current  
> members have been unmoderated. Mailman isn't as clever as I hoped,  
> so it is NOT practical for the -eg and -observer lists to copy each  
> other. What we have is that -eg traffic is copied to -observer,  
> where -observer members may comment on it. No traffic on -observer  
> comes back to -eg. -eg members could subscribe to -observer to  
> follow discussions if they wish.
>
> Alex
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