On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:09:14PM -0500, Berin Loritsch wrote:
> The problem comes with changing dependencies and classnames. For example the
> SessionStateSelectorFactory has been renamed the SessionAttributeSelector.
> While the second is arguably a better name, please use deprecation so that
> users can be warned before the class is eliminated!
>
> Avalon Excalibur has a few classes which follow the following approach:
>
> /**
> * @deprecated Use ExcaliburComponentManager instead!
> */
> class DefaultComponentManager extends ExcaliburComponentManager{}
>
> This way the functionality is the same, but the user is pointed to the
> correct version gracefully.
>
> It is a number of issues like this, the constant rearranging of the core
> components, etc. that make moving between Cocoon versions a headache.
>
> I honestly think we have a few too many different types of core components,
> and it would be better if they were rearranged a bit.
>
> This is especially true since people have portions of the cocoon.xconf
> file that are specialized to their site!
>
> DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!
> *Any* time you add a new abstract method to an abstract class, or change
> an abstract method on an abstract class--that change is NOT BACKWARDS
> COMPATIBLE!
>
> I have some specialized actions that extend AbstractComplimentaryConfigurableAction
That would most likely be my fault... I wanted access to the environment passed in
from the sitemap to be accessible to the configure method. a resolver (environment)
needs to be passed as the second arguement to
AbstractComplimentaryConfigurableAction... It was the solution to what seems to be a
longstanding problem of not being able to use configuration files relative to
subsitemaps.
Tim
> that are now broken because of this very thing. Now I have to figure out
> what changed!
>
> --
>
> "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
> deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> - Benjamin Franklin
>
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