Re: Servlets and objects

From:

"Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com>

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Date:

Sun, 6 May 2007 00:04:40 -0700

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"Karl Uppiano" <karl.uppiano@verizon.net> wrote in message
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"Lew" <lew@nospam.lewscanon.com> wrote in message
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Z. wrote:

Mike Schilling wrote:

(The shortcut to "yes" is that *everything* in Java is an object
:-)

Modulo primitives, and autoboxing helps that.

It occured to me afterwards that the JVM isn't an object.

Yes, but the JVM isn't in Java.

Which is more or less the same statement: if Java reified the JVM, it
would do so as an object.

Java happens to refity the idea of "servlet". If it didn't, servlets
wouldn't be in Java nor would they be objects.

??? reified, refity ... there are terms unfamiliar to me.

"refity" is a misspelling of "reify", to "make real", or more generally,
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reify>

I wonder why they don't just say "realize".

Sorry for the typo ("refity" for "reify"). I used "reify" because it means
precisely to make concrete, or to materialize.