Re: Loading Classes from Tables

Walden H. Leverich wrote:
>> If you store the code in a blob, and the interface to 
>> that class changes, then your application is broken. 
> It's an interface, it's not supposed to change. Seriously though, any
> change would require that we handled that problem.

Exactly.

>> I would put the plug-in's in the jar and just 
>> redeploy the jar when you need to make a change.
> 1) That makes deploying a new question type an IT job, instead of a user
> job. 

But it is an IT job ultimately ... users aren't going to write the
classes to handle the new functionality.  If IT is writing the class,
then they can handle the deployment.

> 2) You're assuming I'd have the same set of question types in each
> deployment, or a custom jar for each deployment.

No, just include all the question types in the jar ... each time you add
a new question, you redeploy the application.

david