Berin Loritsch wrote:
>>From: Marcus Crafter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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>> Berin - is this the direction we should be heading with Fortress
>> (ie. automatic dependency resolution, etc).
>>
>> I've got the code together to be able to specify a handlers
>> initialization policy via an 'activation' attribute, similar to
>> what Steven did with Merlin. Should I go ahead and commit this ?
>> or should we discuss it further ?
>>
>>
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>I do want to go in one direction for specifying component dependencies
>and meta-info. Truth be told, the RoleManager's chief role is to enable
>the specification of meta info. The Fortress design allows us to
>reverse
>engineer the configuration so that if the user specified the old style
><component/> entry, we could convert it to a more friendly name.
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>That said, I do want Merlin and Fortress to converge on one way of
>specifying components, and their initialization policy. That will take
>away the 90% of the need to create our own containers. That way, the
>main difference between Merlin and Fortress will be the Async/Sync
>component management policies, and the support for lifecycle extension.
>
>BTW, What is your feeling on lifecycle extension? Is it something that
>we can propose for ContainerKit
>
I'll have to dig before given you an opinion.
>and make it easier for all containers
>to support it? Stephen, what is your feeling on it?
>
I would like explore a Merlin/Fortress merger. Merlin content on the
Kernel/Container/Meta-Data layers, Fortress content on the handlers,
lifecycle extensions and probably more that I'm not up to speed with
yet. There's stuff in-between that would need discussion simply to get
a better picture of where the boundaries and relationships are.
Thoughts ?
Just for reference, I've updated a lot of the documentation on Merlin so
getting a better idea of how Merlin is doing its stuff should be easier.
http://home.osm.net/doc/merlin
Cheers, Steve.
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