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Re: Cannonical name for JAVA classes - further thoughts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Hoekstra)
Sun Jul 2 23:19:07 1995
Reply-To: roh@scuk.demon.co.uk
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
From: Bob Hoekstra <roh@scuk.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 95 09:37:58 +0100 (BST)
<<< Chuck McManis wrote >>>
> >... 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.
>
> Actually if you look at the source to WWWClassLoader.java you will noti=
ce
> 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...
<<< End of msg from Chuck McManis >>>
Sounds great - does this mean that NIS+ will have to be ported to all
systems that run [hot]java? The concept of NIS+ running in MS-Windows/
DOS makes me want to :-)
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