Emmanuel Bourg wrote on Wednesday, March 03, 2004 2:22 PM: > J�rg Schaible wrote: > >> Well, this is not what I would like to have, again because of the >> dom4j dependency. I already have a > HierarchicalDOMConfiguration that >> is based on the w3c classes only. I just took the code from >> HierarchicalDOM4JConfiguration and replaced the relevant parts. The >> same could be done for a DOMConfiguration. To complete the DOM >> support a <dom> tag could be supported by the factory. Also the >> factory could be refactored so that the most functionality is in an >> abstract base class and the derived classes would add the supported >> tags. ConfigurationFactory would support anything contained in the >> configuration package (= backward compatibility) and the user could >> create his own factory with the elements he would like to use (and >> their dependencies). Additionally this would allow user-defined >> Configuration classes or the support of DatabaseConfiguration in the >> factory. >> >> What do you think? > > I don't know the motivations for using DOM4J, but using the standard > interfaces and removing a dependency is certainly interesting. > > A pluggable extension mechanism for the ConfigurationFactory would be > nice too.
Do I have to consider something else concerning submission/donation of the code? Regards, J�rg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
