Leo Sutic wrote:
>
> Berin,
>
> well, note that the quote isn't taken from the /. article, but from the
> Avalon/Framework homepage at http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/framework/.
> Had zpengo bothered to read the next sentence:
>
> "What that means is that we define the central interface Component. We also
> define the relationship (contract) a component has with peers, ancestors and
> children. This documentation introduces you to those patterns, interfaces
> and relationships."
My point is that this should make it into the press releases.
> Maybe he would have understood it a bit better.
zpengo, as I mentioned earlier, likes to complain. The point he brought up was
understandable--esp. since the quote was the meat of the announcement.
>
> However, I agree that it is a lousy start and isn't exactly easy reading.
> Maybe a bulleted list would be better, or splitting it into several
> sentences:
>
> "Note to the impatient: The Avalon Framework is already used in Cocoon2, an
> XML publishing framework. If you are evaluating Avalon and want the
> 'propaganda of the deed,' check it out.
>
> "The Avalon Framework is intended to aid the development of server
> applications by providing interfaces defining common design patterns. This
> means that a programmer can use tried and tested designs which makes for a
> secure product, as well as an increase in code re-use.
>
> "The Avalon Framework raises the abstraction level from Object-Oriented
> Programming concept one notch to the Component-Oriented Programming model.
> This enables programmers to concern themselves with assemblies of classes,
> rather than the classes themselves - thus reducing the number of things the
> programmer must keep in mind, and speeding up application development.
>
> "Convenience implementations of common components are included in the
> framework."
>
> "To sum it up: The Avalon Framework provides:
>
> - Ready-to-use design patterns.
> - A higher level of abstraction than OOP.
> - Implementations of common components."
This is very good. Let's dress it up and make it part of the Announcement.txt
file.
> I checked them both out. As far as the Avalon posts are concerned, while
> they did point out a problem, I don't think they put too much time or
> research behind those two posts. Which, of course, can be caused by a total
> non-interest in Avalon or server-side Java programming.
True--when you have general anonymity you feel like you can say anything.
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