On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Dominique Pfister <dpfis...@adobe.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > On Tue 28, 2012, at 6:32 PM, Michael Dürig wrote: > >> On 28.2.12 15:40, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> >>> One reason to use the MicroKernel API is so we can implement a native >>> version of the MicroKernel. See also >>> >>> http://wiki.apache.org/jackrabbit/Goals%20and%20non%20goals%20for%20Jackrab >>> bit%203 - TBD - Microkernel portable to C: >> >> I think it is valuable to have a language agnostic API as long as there is >> a real chance anyone will ever build a Microkernel or an implementation on >> top of the Microkernel with a language which does not interoperate well with >> Java. However, internally we should break down the functionality provided by >> that API into smaller units with well defined and separate functionality as >> Jukka started to draft it with the Tree interface. >> Michael > > I second your point: having a stringly typed MK interface in order to > support programming languages such as C should not imply that an internal > module has to be squeezed into this frame.
+1, agreed. cheers stefan > > Dominique
