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Daniel Rall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin A. Burton) writes:
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> > I also don't like generated APIs. This is
> > one of the main reasons not to use something like Castor/Antlr.
>
> Bah. Generated APIs just need proper encapsulation (shocking that the
> rest of the program works like that too, eh?). Use of a parser
> generator is a very good suggestion.
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... it can get pretty dirty.
- - do you put the APIs in CVS? What if you make subtle modifications to them.
- - if you don't put them in CVS you have to generate them at build time.
- - if you put them in CVS then every time you change the API generator you get
redundant CVS commit messages
- - generated APIs don't follow your coding conventions.
- - javadoc for generated APIs is usually terrible.
I think the solution to some of these is to expose your generation via XSLT. My
xjay (http://xjay.sourceforge.net) project solve some of these but I didn't have
a chance to take it too far.
Kevin
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