Re: no! you idiots at Oracle
On 11/09/2010 06:57 AM, Kevin McMurtrie wrote:
In article<53ghd693lj8v1ppkhembi81jal5lhgvs20@4ax.com>,
Roedy Green<see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:
Oracle is "reforming" the Sun website.
Changes look like typically this:
from:
http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/?frontpage-javaplatform
to:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index-jsp-141438.html
The important thing is there is NO pattern to this. Every one of
thousands of links out there in the world to the Sun site will
eventually have to be manually updated. ARRGGH!
I do some of my links manually and but most are computer-generated
from patterns. These nincompoops have destroyed all sense of order and
made all the links unmemorisable.
It's great when Java documentation references an important URL and it's
404-acled. Couldn't Oracle have maintained a URL translation table.
Surely it could be stored in, I dunno, a database?
A nice example of what happens if an API is not kept stable across
versions...
Cheers
robert
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