[jsr294-modularity-eg] Practical points

[Richard S. Hall]

So that Peter doesn't feel so lonely:

I am Richard Hall. I work for Sun's GlassFish team and am the chair of 
the Apache Felix project (implementing the OSGi specs), which is used by 
GlassFish.

-> richard

Peter Kriens wrote:
> 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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