Thanks for these clarifications! On Monday, 8 December 2014, Ralph Ritoch <rrit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One important piece of information about this feature is that it doesn't > manipulate classloaders. This feature was designed to be used with OSGi or > applications that handle their own classloading issues. In a typical > application when entering a namespace isolation you may also need to bind a > separate Compiler/LOADER and Thread context loader, but those classloaders > can, and should, have common parent classloaders to load clojure from the > same classloader. This feature simply isolates clojure namespaces, it > doesn't manipulate the underlying Java support systems which can already be > manipulated with existing clojure features. The benefit of this feature is > that you can create separate namespace environments with different copies > of the same namespace names without needing to run separate run-times > making it possible for them to directly share all clojure data types via > shared namespaces since they're loaded by the same classloader. A side > effect of the implementation is that it is possible to copy namespaces from > one environment to another if you have the pointer returned from creating > the environment. I have considered adding automatic creation of dynamic > classloaders and associating them with isolation environments but that can > be done from libraries using existing clojure features. > > For future reference since additional features will likely be added to > this fork, this feature is implemented via the git commit > https://github.com/rritoch/clojure/commit/0f4804bbf584049fd85ffa872f10522cc41eff9a > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','clojure@googlegroups.com');> > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
