[2299] in java-interest
Thoughts on the multiplication of files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dufourd@enst.enst.fr)
Thu Sep 28 09:30:47 1995
From: dufourd@enst.enst.fr
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 12:17:02 +0100
I have asked already for a solution to the "many small class files" problem.
Now I think there are two possible approaches.
(1) Treat it as a Java specific problem :
Roughly, that would mean extend the applet tag to allow for the specification
of "code=" as a Jarchive, which would be processed as a current directory.
(2) The problem is wider : any HTML page with lots of subelements (e.g. GIF)
would benefit from bundled loading. So why not create a new content type,
e.g. application/packed, which would be something like a tar file of
everything useful for the page. The applet tag would first look into it
for class files before going along the path.
Questions: Is this reasonable ? Is it new or is there already some people
working along those lines ? Is it the place to discuss this ?
Maybe (2) would be better, but because of inertia, we should do (1) now ?
JCD
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