Re: [xmlvm-users] OneJar and XMLVM

[Panayotis K. <pan...@pa...>]

On 17 Σεπ 2010, at 9:03 μ.μ., Arno Puder wrote:

> 
> fact is that we will soon add quite a bit more to the OneJar. The source 
> code of the Boehm GC and (more importantly) the cross-compiled version 
> of the OpenJDK. Especially the latter will increase the size of the 
> OneJar significantly.
> 
> In principle I like the OneJar approach for its simplicity: everything 
> is bundled in one jar. However, we should make sure that the 
> jar-inside-jar for huge files does not have any significant performance 
> impact. If that should be the case, we definitely need to abandon the 
> OneJar approach.


I totally agree. But I do think that the one jar approach makes system slow. For example, if you run xmlvm with no command line arguments, there is a significant time before displaying the help text, in order to unzip the contents of the file. This is an obvious problem but I also thing there are other performance issues elsewhere.

One thing I thought and didn't discuss it is, if we want to develop a java-based iphone application, only the xml2objc jar should could be added to the project and not everything. Similar with Android projects… :) This will decrease developer frustration - I think.