DNS JNDI provider

Fri Feb 15 12:01:00 GMT 2002

Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
> >>>>> "Nic" == Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk> writes: 
>> Andrew> Perhaps all we should do is produce a special error message 
> Andrew> from the compiler. 
>> Nic> Nah. We have the same problem with javamail. 
>> Nic> You just have to break compatability. If programmers are sensible 
> Nic> they will always pick strings names for implementation classes from 
> Nic> some property file. 
>> Another choice would be to find the code that loads the provider, and 
> change it: 
>> if (provider.equals ("com.sun.whatever")) 
> provider = "gnu.whatever"; 
>> This could be more confusing than worthwhile though. 

Yeah. Just move it to the gnu namespace.
Nic