[C3] Pipeline DSL

2010-12-07 Thread Simone Tripodi
Hi all guys, I just committed a first working spike of a Pipeline DSL[1] to expose more fluent APIs to final users to help them correctly creating and running pipelines, built on top of pipeline APIs. I also modified a test to show how to use the new APIs. WDYT? Every feedback/suggestion would be

RE: [C3] Pipeline DSL

2010-12-07 Thread Robby Pelssers
Hi Simoni, i think it's indeed more fluent and more explicit. So I think it certainly is an improvement. Only a few days back I wrote a mail to my fellow Java team members complaining that Java feels like a big fat bloated beast more and more with lack of expressiveness and higher order

Re: [C3] Pipeline DSL

2010-12-07 Thread Jos Snellings
Good point. I would say: everything you need and even more is there! For people who were familiar with 2.2 or who want to port their application: they are going to miss flowscript. For people who lost contact in version 2.1 or so, they will probably be missing xsp as a presentation scripting,

Re: [C3] Pipeline DSL

2010-12-07 Thread Simone Tripodi
Hi Robby, I perfectly agree with you!!! even if I'm conservative I recently started having the feeling of a subset of functional APIs that really simplify the objects creation/setup. Pipeline for example, even if has a very simple and intuitive APIs, sometimes are subject to users