Re: decoupling EOF
Re: decoupling EOF
- Subject: Re: decoupling EOF
- From: Colin Clark <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 18:15:24 -0500
On Friday, March 4, 2005, at 05:42 PM, Ralph Scheuer wrote:
Vectors? Hashtables? ROTFL!
That makes me laugh, too.
I have come to like com.webobjects.foundation for its simplicity and
its consistency. They are also quite useful as one uses third party
frameworks - I rarely use Java Collections if I don't absolutely have
to.
I mean: the alternative would be to use exactly those collection
classes. Quick, what was it again? What's the difference between a
Vector, a Hashtable and a Hashmap? _That_ stuff is crazy if you ask
me. I'd prefer foundation over this mess any day. Why can't _Sun_ just
call the damn stuff consistently, as in NSDictionary vs.
NSMutableDictionary - that's fine with me.
Ralph, you're missing the point here. I think Java collections are
ugly, too. The Foundation kit is simple and well-defined. It might even
be wonderfully satisfying if you live in a hermetically sealed
environment.
The reality for most of us is that we develop in Java. If we're smart,
we take advantage of a wide range of third-party tools and libraries
available. This puts us in a situation where we're using to completely
parallel interfaces for collections, which--as you may have seen in my
last post--can create a lot of extra work in certain cases where these
need to be integrated.
Colin
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Colin Clark
Dynamic Web and Database Development Lead,
Resource Centre for Academic Technology,
University of Toronto
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