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Cannonical name for JAVA classes - further thoughts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr_George_D_Detlefsen)
Wed Jun 28 19:51:55 1995
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 95 13:43:06 PDT
From: drgeorge@ilt.com (Dr_George_D_Detlefsen)
To: java-interest@java.sun.com, java-porting@java.sun.com
Yesterday, I suggested that a full cannonical name for a JAVA class
might be composed of an fully qualified Internet domain name plus
components local to that domain.
This morning in the shower, it occurred to me that a good extension
of the classloader would be to check the first component of the
class name for a match against the DNS top level domains, ie. com,
edu, us, jp, uk, .... If there was a match, it would search the
DNS space for the longest string of name components that a hostname
lookup succeded for. It would then make a TCP connection to the
'javad' daemon on a well known port on that host. It would then
send the remaining portion of the class name to the 'javad', which
would then look up the class in its directory structure and send
the .class file back thru the TCP socket. This would give world wide
access to reuseable class libraries for the cost of implementing
a extension to 'hotjava.src/src/share/java/runtime/classloader.c'
and a relatively simple 'javad' daemon process.
Cheers,
Dr George D Detlefsen,
InterLinear Technology, phone: 1-(510)-522-5077
1420 Harbor Bay Pkwy # 281 fax: 1-(510)-522-1228
Alameda CA 94502-6556 USA email: drgeorge@ilt.com
`All progress comes thru the work of heretics` -- Dr George
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