> do you see the usefulness of this, or am I alone with this? Actually this chaining reminds me of how BEA Weblogic Portal works. You write many simple controllers called input processors and pipeline components and then use a GUI front-end to an XML file to chain them together. This allows for some code reuse (though not as much as I would have expected) but best of all it keeps the logic of the app straight forward and easy to modify since each component was not more than a few short methods and the GUI allows you to see your whole app in a flow chart. It has occurred to me more than once that one could actually implement something similar in Eclipse without much difficulty and it would have the advantage of being connected to an IDE so that a double click on a component took you right into the code itself. With the BEA solution one is always juggling several tools.
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