On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 04:04, Michael Neale <michael.ne...@gmail.com> wrote: > I could be wrong, but I don't know of any libraries at all myself in > common use.
I think to break through language borders and accept the additional dependencies coming along with that, there must be really good reasons. This applies for Java libaries also I guess. I already have chosen to implement a few things myself rather than using a separate library. Even worse, when it comes to bigger frameworks. They are usually coming along not only with additional dependencies but also with additional constraints. I have seen people writing everything in PHP but to get fulltext indexing in their applications they crossed the language border over to Java and use Lucene. - And I also seen .NET programmers using .NET-ports of iText and the like. There are those big libraries that are very powerful in a specific realm. Many of them are in Java. For my own needs I would would rather cross border to .NET rather to Ruby or Scala for thick client development to get the Windows stuff integrated. This because there is (maybe) no other way to get the particular stuff baken. So I think to make me using a third-party non-Java library (JVM or not), that library must be really good in doing a particular stuff (where no alternative exists in Java) to make me accepting the appropriate drawbacks. So the question is rather: Is there an outstanding library in a non-java language that can do something particular very good that one wants to implement in his application "at any cost"? -- Live long and prosper, Martin Wildam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
