Hi. In response to episode 206 about Libraries. First a disclaimer: I have listened to all JP episodes and I love you guys.
Ok. Libraries. I saw the other thread on this and frankly: No one seems to get it! Maybe they did and I didnt read it, then apologies... 1.0 Librarylibrary.com No one's thinking outside the box on this. All responses to the Library discussion are, no offence, sucked in. We dont need Librarylibrary.com. It's a bad idea! We dont live in the 90's we live in the age of hypersearch. Ever heard of CPAN? Well we DONT NEED THAT. (BTW. Why did you omit that in the discussion). Dont get me wrong CPAN is/was great. But we dont need another aggregation site. We've got search. So forget the site that bundles all java libraries... Use google. A well crafted search can deliver you every library you'll need for Java. Like Tor said: he needed a YAML library, so he googled. Nothing else needed! 2.0 Multitudinous libraries Limiting the amount of java libraries is like trying to blot out part of the sky at night coz it's just too bright. Well, wear sunnies at night! The bazaar. Think chaos upon chaos. With the wealth of libraries out there we are able form a mass of libraries from which there will be the uberperformers. (Thinking of Hibernate here). The fact that there are thousands of frameworks, doesnt mean we need to get rid of some of them or, God forbid, standardise[Ugh]. It means we are more likely, at some point, to strike the one governs them all. Think Lame jokes. The posse should know what Im talking about (-; If there are enought lame jokes, then the bed is made for that one killer joke. Think sports. When China has excelling gymnasts that take all the gold medals, take into the picture all those gymnasts that just didnt make the grade and then the multitudes of gymnasts that the China was able to pick them from (with a pool like that you're bound to come up with winners). These 2 examples serve to illustrate that having a wealth of development and effort out there, means swifter progress, more interchange of ideas and fertile ground for the development community (especially if projects are open source). I thought Tor was the only one in the discussion who some sort of connection with reality. Go Tor! postdisclaimer: As you know guys I love you to bits and thanks for the podcasts! Kind regards. Luke Vanderfluit --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
