Re: Classloading again

2009-01-29 Thread Ferdinando Villa
Also, there is a pretty extensive description of the approach to modularity that Java plans to support in the next major release, in JSR-000277. Not necessarily fitting Clojure, but most likely close to what we'll have to deal with in the future. On Jan 29, 9:52 am, Rich Hickey wrote: > On Jan 2

Re: Classloading again

2009-01-29 Thread Ferdinando Villa
Thanks much Rich. All your points are well taken, and OSGI and the like are clearly not designed with any support for dynamic compiled languages in mind. Having to live with that, here's the strategy that works for us. Our support for Clojure is based on Clojure bindings provided with each bundle

Re: Classloading again

2009-01-29 Thread Rich Hickey
On Jan 28, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Ferdinando Villa wrote: > > Clojure is saving our life and enabling thing we would never have > dreamed of without in our ARIES project (http:// > ecoinformatics.uvm.edu/ > aries). Still, we need to hack RT in order to be able to use it. I've > seen some discussion

Classloading again

2009-01-28 Thread Ferdinando Villa
Clojure is saving our life and enabling thing we would never have dreamed of without in our ARIES project (http://ecoinformatics.uvm.edu/ aries). Still, we need to hack RT in order to be able to use it. I've seen some discussion on classloader flexibility in the context of Eclipse integration. In