On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Mark R. Diggory wrote:
>
> Hmm, not to be critical, but 5.1 is almost at the end of its product
> lifecycle. Weblogic has had several releases since 5.1 that solve many
> of these issues do they not? I say this mostly to "identify" that there
> is a limitation as to how far back in terms of versioning we, as a "new
> tool", should consider supporting. I would have attempted to deal with
> an issue like this with BEA, not neccessarily with the java community at
> large because they create too many jars (I'm saying this lightly).
>
> Not to nip a subject in the butt. But this has moved way off the issue
> associated with how dependent the different commons projects (and
> specifically related to math dependencies). I hope we can draw it back
> into this subject.
>
> -Mark
>
>
I agree with minimizing the number of dependent Jar's. I also agree
with statements made earlier in this thread related to supporting older
JDKs (if JDK1.2 works for your app why should use of this component force
you to change?)
Regarding the logging; It has been suggested that the logging
dependency be isolated to the test classes only on not required for the
runtime lib. This makes sense to me, with the caveat that we must have a
robust exception hierarchy so that logging can be plugged in at a higher
level.
Regarding the Discovery, I see only two instances where the
DiscoveryClass is used (UnivariateRealSolverFactory, and
DistributionFactory), both of which use only the newInstance(Class,String)
method. Off hand I dont see the advantage of using the DiscoveryClass
here, my impression is the find() methods are the 'meat' of the
DiscoveryClass.
commons-collections, this seems only prudent to keep, as I can only
imagine that the linear algebraic routines will become more complicated,
and collections lends itself naturally to mathematical constructs.
this leaves commons-lang, and commons-beanutils
None of these are used very extensively, however I can see how these are
useful.
commons-lang is used only in the MathException class, as a trade off
for removing logging I think that the NestableException becomes necessary.
commons-beanutils is used by the *Transformer classes (seems good to
me).
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