oh and there is also a facade being developed in commons-attributes that I
believe the qdox/xdoclet peeps were working on. But I think it lost its
luster as it started to loose simplicity and added deps so not sure if it
still is alive ;)
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:18, Peter Donald wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 03:09, Jakob Praher wrote:
> > as we (Leo and I) have talked about custom metadata attribute support
> > for java lately, I wanted to know whether this should be done inside
> > avalon, or should be delegated to another (jakarta) project.
>
> Depends on where you want to do it ;)
>
> However if I was you I would wait till the end of January before you start
> on it. Rickard Oberg is planning to release his version of runtime
> attributes + aspects sometime mid-january. Hes one of the initial
> contributors to XDoclet IIRC and thus it is possible that it will become a
> defacto-standard overnight. Then again it may not ... and the release has
> yet to be done ;)
>
> I believe the XDoclet people were also creating XRAI product that did the
> same thing for XDoclet2 - not sure on it's status.
>
> > if inside avalon, I was wondering what approach towards implementing
> > them should be taken. (class augmentation, manifest files, ...)
>
> There is a few ways of doing it. The best/easiest I have found so far is a
> binary file that sits next to .class file and contains the attributes. So
> if you have a
>
> com/biz/Foo.class
>
> you end up with a
>
> com/biz/Foo.meta or com/biz/Foo.atr or com/biz/Foo.tags or whatever
>
> > I am curious about your opinons, and I am interested in helping with the
> > implementation.
>
> If you can hold off then I would recomend you do that. However if you want
> to have a bash at it imediately then there was previously a project called
> metaclass in jakarta-avalon-excalibur. However it ended up moving out and
> is still undergoing devellopment. If you are interested in that contact me
> and I will send you the details.
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