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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
