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Re: multiple inheritance in Java

From Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: multiple inheritance in Java
Date 2013-07-05 11:17 -0600
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Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> writes:

> On the other hand, and this is probably more important, the Java
> community sets great store on always doing things the usual way, and
> this has turned into a strength for the language: you can pull a
> third-party library library into a project and expect that it will work
> with and follow the same conventions as the rest of the code.

Recently I've been looking at an interesting exception to this, JSch:

    http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/

If you do a little searching on the web you can find lots of complaints
that the code isn't very Java-ish, and on my own reading of the source I
tend to agree.  It nevertheless continues to be a successful project
with widespread use, and I think there's a reason for that.  SSH has a
well-defined standard and the code is a faithful implementation of
that.  Once you study the standards document, the JSch code starts to
make sense.  It's also a stable protocol that seems unlikely to change,
so there's not a lot of reason to want to extend it yourself.  But most
projects aren't like that.

-- 
Jim Janney

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Re: multiple inheritance in Java Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-07-05 10:04 -0600
  Re: multiple inheritance in Java Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-07-05 11:17 -0600
    Re: multiple inheritance in Java Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-07-05 17:10 -0400
  Re: multiple inheritance in Java Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-07-05 12:26 -0700
    Re: multiple inheritance in Java Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-07-05 16:22 -0600
    Re: multiple inheritance in Java Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-07-05 21:52 -0400
  Re: multiple inheritance in Java Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-07-05 17:09 -0400
    Re: multiple inheritance in Java Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-07-05 16:29 -0600
      Re: multiple inheritance in Java Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-07-05 21:53 -0400
        Re: multiple inheritance in Java Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-07-05 22:31 -0600
          Re: multiple inheritance in Java Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-07-18 22:48 -0300

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