Re: Resource confusion

From:

Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:43:01 -0800

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Novice wrote:

In all honesty, I have never seriously looked at classloaders and have no
real idea why there are all various different ones and when I should be
trying to use one programmatically. I basically had troubles reading a
file from my file system some time ago, googled, and found a post with an
example indicating that toClass().toResource() was a good idea. (A
specific mention of classLoader may have been in there too.) I never
really understood the issue properly but that code got me out of trouble
for the original situation and I've imitated it several times without
really understanding it. Learning more about these classloaders is on my
To Do list; maybe I need to move it up the list ;-)

The term for this style of programming is "cargo cult programming".

Programming by superstition is not a winning strategy.

Everything in programming is explicable. There is an answer. Be confident of
that. So never, ever, ever accept "I never really understood the issue
properly", much less rely on code you don't understand to get you out of
trouble. At least not for very long.

"I've imitated it several times without really understanding it" is criminal.
Criminal. That's not how a programmer works.

Thanks again Arved! I think I'm out of trouble now....

Not yet.

--
Lew
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