On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 09:37 PM, Stephen McConnell wrote:
Block <-- extends Appliance by (a) doing additional management of
its implememntation (where block implementation referes to the
components heirachy it is managing), and (b) publishes services
established via the implementation as dynamic meta info - i.e.
a block transforms itself into a normal component in that it
exposed depedencies and services and can be applied as a
solution when building other components. Implemntation of (b)
is currently in-progress.
I like the layout (finally starting to pay more attention, head coming up above the chaos). I'm concerned about the terminology of 'Appliance' though. Did you pick appliance in that a kitchen is made up of various appliances? (Appliance to me brings up images of microwaves, dishwashers and refrigerators). While they are the (building-)blocks of a kitchen, I would think that the relationship would be inverted, an appliance is a block. Just as shelves, counters, cookbooks, utensils are also blocks, but not appliances.
Could a merlin block be used directly as a phoenix block?
-pete
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