-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- After someone mentioned "E", Electric Communities (http://www.communities.com/) enhancement to the Java security model/language/etc., I checked it out It looks useful for a distributed agents based system (which is what I'm shooting for...the long-awaited goals mailing will either get sent today or tomorrow, depending on if I fall asleep immediately after sending this). I don't think anyone will argue that it's inherently bad. However, I'm interested in knowing what people think about using a vaguely proprietary product (albeit from a company with lots of cool people) in a piece of software like a reference Eternity implementation. I personally would prefer to stick to something as standard as possible, but E has a lot of features I'd want to use, and would end up re-implementing on my own. (I think if you had a JVM interface to eternity such that an object, its currency, where it should send its results, etc. in a standard form (the standard eternity agent encapsulation) were encapsulated, you could build a lot of Eternity out of interacting agents inside another Eternity implemention, inside ... up to inside a traditional network. (more on this idea later)) So, this is very rambling -- I mostly wonder how people feel about using a fairly non-standard language extension in something like Eternity. Ryan [ObDentistry: Wisdom teeth *really* suck. I want drugs.] - -- Ryan Lackey rdl@mit.edu http://mit.edu/rdl/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNL6JcKwefxtEUY69AQGs0Qf/TubvdreDInDvT89R8UGHd1TohudBCwYE KWq66zhULQh0YAdn2ZoL4rT9lhxWJ/QE0el8sLxmp9CgjwnMi8l7uA8eKB3RSi0s l6zgx96PJYLvAtI+S7gYcLAKf9RvHH5TzyWpT/WoiePb4Wd8YI0Z3DthdEdd4xMs gKqmyOO6JpX+SPXF89shN33j1LXfFmvq10XWlCW15XLyyA72WwoWbKQHu40uliAd rsM+CRacNN7K3Gc9OV4IWORnmIciZbJ1EZbO8kyZU3YlYvOB+QyZpnaYvFuzyLtS Iyud5WaVVRM7mGn9FS9WwSaxqxMrRRv25FutM9muHmAIufaxnMVeQA== =GQr/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----