Etienne, I didn't mean that every Harmony JVM should follow OPEN interface. It is not necessary to implement but maybe JVMs can benefit from following it (or any kind of standard interface accepted by the community). It is just a proposal with some simple ideas behind it:
First, JVM should be modular. Second, those modules should have standard interfaces (and therefore, be reusable in other VMs). If you don't agree with this approach or have any other thoughts about the proposal - please share it with the community - your opinion and your experience is valuable. I believe this document was made so large not with the intention that nobody would read it but just because of the complexity of problem and an attempt to clarify all issues :) -- Regards, Anton Luht, Intel Middleware Products Division On 5/29/06, Etienne Gagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Anton, Are you proposing that all Harmony JVMs must abide by the OPEN proposal? If yes, I think that some process has to be put in place to present and discuss each of this proposal's part, and dedicate time to do so. IMO, I don't think that everyone (in the JVM sub-communityof Harmony) can simply read through this proposal and be able to make an enlightened decision about it. I think that each point would gain much from being presented along the motivation behind it. For example, would your OPEN proposal work with a bidirectional object layout, without incurring prohivitive performance costs? [Just asking, I didn't have time to read through all of it...] Of course, this is only an opinion. :-) Etienne Anton Luht wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to try to draw attention to the OPEN proposal again. It > was published about two weeks ago and produced a very small response > in the community. This interface is very important, because if it is > accepted, it will become a base of (many?) Harmony VMs. > > For example, one of the current limitations of OPEN interfaces is that > Component Manager loads all components at startup and there's no > possibility to change a component (for example, Garbage Collector) > later. Is it OK for everyone? Maybe someone foresees problems with > such approach? > -- Etienne M. Gagnon, Ph.D. http://www.info2.uqam.ca/~egagnon/ SableVM: http://www.sablevm.org/ SableCC: http://www.sablecc.org/
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