Anton & Blake,
One example feature that I hope to support is OSGI. Direct support for OSGI will likely cause a significant performance loss. That is why I'm going to do a quick optimization of the entire system before I start working on the new features. I believe OSGI is scheduled to be included in Java 9, along with some new packaging facilities which I also hope to support when I can find adequate documentation on the subject. These are all features that belong in a fork because they can and probably will have a negative impact on the performance of applications that don't need those features. I hope to make these features pluggable eventually, but hard coding them initially is much easier.
Using ant instead of maven is also a limitation I'm not willing to accept. Most of the people I've talked to think I should skip maven and go directly to a gradle build system. Since gradle can utilize maven, maven is adequate for most development needs at this point.
Best Regards, Ralph Ritoch
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Anton Vodonosov avodonosov@yandex.ru wrote:
25.08.2015, 07:54, "Ralph Ritoch" rritoch@gmail.com:
Any future releases will no longer be based on improving ABCL but be for
the purpose of better supporting modern application development.
Modern application development?
Could you say several more words about this?
Best regards,
- Anton