Its not about is it technically easy or hard to do. It must make sense, we really have to gain something
On 1/11/08, Martijn Dashorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I *still* haven't heard one single technical argument against using > annotations apart from Igor's concern that we would need to scan the > classpath. > > Seriously all the "I don't like annotations" arguments are getting stale. > > Martijn > > On Jan 11, 2008 6:42 PM, Jon Steelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If we are talking about using annotations for anything that hints of > > declarative programming, I'm not at all in favor. Nobody here...but some > > folks are rabid about declarative programming and always find a new way to > > attempt to finally make it work. It reminds me of the > > Computer-Aided-Software-Engineering (CASE) debacle from the 80's which has > > its latest incarnation as Model-Driven-Architecture (MDA). There are > > fundamental reasons why CASE/MDA isn't really going to fly yet generation > > after generation of folks get seduced into taking a crack at it. > Declarative > > programming (including systems that use annotations for declarative > > programming) is to me another relative dead-end. Please don't saddle > Wicket > > with it. :-) > > > > > > -- > Buy Wicket in Action: http://manning.com/dashorst > Apache Wicket 1.3.0 is released > Get it now: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.0 >
