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Re: The purpose of sun.* classes?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Mon Sep 18 19:41:28 1995
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 12:18:38 -0800 (PDT)
From: Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Jayson Raymond <jraymond@connectsoft.com>
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Hi Jayson,
> >It has moved to sun.net. This means that it is not going to be supported by
> all Java enabled browsers.
>
> Perhaps I've missed this in the JDK documentation, but I'm not sure I
> understand the purpose of the sun.* classes. Why would one browser support
> it and not another? Is this a platform dependency issue?
>
> Any enlightenment would be greatly appreciated...
We had to divide the alpha3 code base up into parts that are supported by all
Java enabled browsers and parts that are HotJava specific. In the process we
had to make some compromises in order to reach agreement with our partners.
The fact that some class that are HotJava specific are called sun.* is mainly
to avoid name clashes. We'd like everyone to put their code in a package that
is named after their company. Netscape will put their stuff in netscape.*.
Eventually we will migrate more stuff from sun.* and netscape.* into java.*
so that everyone can rely on it.
Have fun,
Arthur van Hoff
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