At 07:21 17/12/00 -0800, James Duncan Davidson wrote: >On 12/10/00 5:19 PM, "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Also James do you still have any issues regarding Avalon integration? The >> only one that I don't think I have addressed is the size of the jar file. > >Yes. Just because you have addressed them doesn't mean that I agree with >Avalon integration. To me, Ant is just not of that model. And yes, I >understand what Avalon does to a large degree -- I've written general >purpose server toolkits before (there was this thing called Java Server >Toolkit once upon a time upon which a few well known webservers were built >-- and which we built DHCP, DNS, FTP, and a whole bunch of other servers on >top of, not that that particular product saw the light of day).
umm - maybe I didn't make this clear but the parts of Avalon that will be integrated into mymidon have NOTHING to do with DNS/FTP/other traditional server projects. It is a basic component model - same thing used in Cocoon/next-gen fop etc - the vast majority of places I use this component model/framework has nothing to do with servers. >It's not just the size, it's having another dependency, and having that >dependency being a framework which will change over time. I'd like to see >the number of dependencies in Ant to a minimum. Right now we are looking at >XML and Regexp. We don't want any more than that. Or at least *I* don't. It's a price/performance thing. Adding another dependency if it enables a lot of functionality is not really an issue IMHO. Cheers, Pete *-----------------------------------------------------* | "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, | | and proving that there is no need to do so - almost | | everyone gets busy on the proof." | | - John Kenneth Galbraith | *-----------------------------------------------------*
