[jsr294-modularity-eg] Problems for JSR 294 to address

[Thomas Watson]

It seems the observer list is only getting sporadic messages.  I see you
answering questions to posts from the EG mailing list but the observer list
did not get the original post.  Is this simply a timing issue because the
observer list only recently started posting messages from the EG list?

Tom




                                                                                                                                              
  From:       Alex Buckley <Alex.Buckley at sun.com>                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                              
  To:         JSR 294 Expert Group <jsr294-modularity-eg at cs.oswego.edu>                                                                       
                                                                                                                                              
  Date:       01/27/2009 08:07 PM                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                              
  Subject:    Re: [jsr294-modularity-eg] Problems for JSR 294 to address                                                                      
                                                                                                                                              





Daniel Leuck wrote:
>> Interestingly, in my
>> understanding, .NET makes such a distinction between the modularity of a
>> delivery unit (called an assembly) and the finer grained modularity
inside a
>> delivery unit, represented by namespaces. The "internal" keyword
indicates
>> that the artifact is visible only inside an assembly and the "namespace"
>> keyword provides a hierarchical namespace.
>
> That is correct, and I think the "internal" visibility specifier in C#
> makes more sense than what we currently have in java. I think
> visibility within a module is probably the most commonly required
> level after public and private.

+1. Also, I have toyed with the idea of allowing "package" to be used as
an accessibility modifier on a class, interface, or member. When people
have the option of always giving an accessibility modifier, we can
discourage declarations without one, and encourage people to consider
module-private rather than package-private when choosing a modifier.
(Clearly we can't change the default level of accessibility to be
module-private now.)

Alex
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