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Re: Cannonical name for JAVA classes - further thoughts

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pat Niemeyer)
Thu Jun 29 09:57:15 1995

Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 08:39:58 -0500 (CDT)
From: Pat Niemeyer <pat@icon-stl.net>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <9506290630.AA28390@java.sun.com>

> 
> Actually if you look at the source to WWWClassLoader.java you will notice
> that you don't have to modify anything at all in any .c file. As the
> guy that designed NIS+ it occured to me that just this example would
> do quite nicely using a NIS+ table. Can you say global replicated class
> storage space? I thought you could. What's that? A class loader that talks
> SQL? You mean enterprise wide applications with dynamic extensibility
> that automatically upgrade themselves with the control and robustness of
> a commercial database? Kind of cool yes? When you can sign your classes
> digitally you won't even have to worry about the fact that DNS isn't
> secure...
> 
> - --Chuck McManis

I guess the first step is to get ONC RPC going ;)
Do you know if anyone at SUN is working on this?

If not, I might have a go at it.


Pat
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