Re:Jitsi Architecture – legacy desktop application (2011)
by hedora on Thursday April 02, 2020 @12:07PM
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The parent comment here implies they rewrote it after the article was written.
I read the bit on OSGi. It seems to support interfaces, runtime loading and unloading of modules, and a way to discover modules. Java 1.0 did all that stuff natively, though JPMS adds some more capabilities, since I guess people don’t like package private, etc.
C++ also supports these things. (C does too, but you need non-standard dynamic linker constructor/destructor extensions that are available on all platforms).
I can’t think of any widely used language without support of such things.
I read the bit on OSGi. It seems to support interfaces, runtime loading and unloading of modules, and a way to discover modules. Java 1.0 did all that stuff natively, though JPMS adds some more capabilities, since I guess people don’t like package private, etc.
C++ also supports these things. (C does too, but you need non-standard dynamic linker constructor/destructor extensions that are available on all platforms).
I can’t think of any widely used language without support of such things.