Blog Archive for gvix during January 2006
*started this as a comment in response to Dependency hell*
-- the fact that I know I could do the same project two years back with Struts and a handful of Commons libraries.
-- the fact that a newbie to Java will recoil with horror at the number of concepts he has to learn to do anything meaningful. Where would you start a newbie on a project like this? (Don't tell me that you won't hire a...
I started work on an existing project at my day job today and the first thing that I had to do was to download all the dependencies for the project. Here is a snapshot of the dependencies folder after I had checked it out of CVS:
Wow! That's 21 dependencies in that folder. Twenty-One! Actually, it should be more because Jakarta-Commons contains many separate libraries, which in this case is 14...
I am getting increasingly frustrated with the level of differences in MIDP, CLDC and optional API's implementations. Device manufacturers are increasingly making independent rules for their implementations, so much so, that it is almost impossible to port applications from one device to another.
Take the case of Mobile Media API (MMAPI) that enables MIDI, tones, audio and video in your MIDlets....
