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by James Gosling.
Original Post: URLs are your friend
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Feed Description: I've been inescapably tagged as "the Java guy", despite the fact that I havn't worked in the Java product organization for a couple of years (I do still kibbitz). These days I work at Sun's research lab about two thirds of the time, and do customer visits and talks the other third. For more detail...
It's amazing how cool URLs are, especially when you think of them as more than just web references. If you use them instead of Files, you can end up with applications that are much more flexible. I've gotten to the point where I hardly use class File at all - I almost always use URLs. They can...