Re: Incremental Java Compile

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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Date:
Mon, 03 May 2010 20:38:13 -0400
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On 03-05-2010 00:50, Joshua Maurice wrote:

On May 2, 6:27 pm, Arne Vajh?j<a...@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

Structure things better.

With a good OO model a series of related changes should not
require changes in "a large portion of 20000 Java files".


So, how do you suggest doing that when there's a code generator under
active development which generates Java code, and a large portion of
the Java code directly or indirectly works with the output of this
code generator? We model the object domains in a simple modeling
language which is then compiled to C++ and Java code to allow
serializing a description of a unit of work from the Java tools to the
C++ tools and back. Most of the infrastructure and apps work with the
output of this code generator in some form or another.

Unfortunately, one cannot fiat interfaces into being stable.


You are working on fixing the symptoms not the problem.

Something is horrible wrong with the object model if
so many classes change all the time.

If you fix that problem (better requirements or more time
spend designing before coding or whatever necessary), then
you will be much better off.

Arne

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