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  10 Reasons We Need Java 3.0
Subject:   Disagree in a few points
Date:   2002-08-04 09:58:08
From:   EugeneKuleshov
Firs of all XML serialization should be optional but not mandatory. Because owerhead is too high and XML advantages you are described is not always useful. I would say, that in most cases binary representation is more convenient. Especially for object machalling.


Now about File. I agree that file should be improved, but disagree about the way. File should represent some object on a virtual file system, and that VFS should allows to plug in custom FS, sucha s FTP, CVS, WebDAV and so on. Now we have to alternatives to access files - URLConnection and File. So, they should be merged and should allow more features and convenience.
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  • Disagree in a few points
    2002-08-06 08:04:19  rdorta [View]

    I agree with you in the File section. It will be a lot easier to programming and to extend capabilities of java if the classes have some standard access.

    I also like that the capability of handle several FS like FTP or WebDAV appears on Java 3. But I think that a VFS framework will be create this FS access a lot prettier.

    I will include these clases in some javax extension to simplify the language.

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