Antoine, Great job, I think you have sumarized alot of the discussion quite well.
Thanks, Jose Alberto > -----Original Message----- > From: Antoine Levy-Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 May 2003 09:58 > To: Ant Developers List > Subject: antlib > > > I have prepared a few days ago some html pages located under > http://ant.apache.org/projects/antlib/index.html > They might be interesting if you want to read more about the > proposal of Jose Alberto Fernandez. > These pages do not explain yet the proposal of Peter Reilly > due to the fact that I had prepared them right before Peter > submitted it. > > I still think that the roles concept is good and I would like > to make a separate proposal for roles. > My idea would be along the following lines, supposing that > ant is being used by specialists of geometry : > > <taskdef name="computearea" class="org.apache.demo.ComputeAreaTask"/> > <taskdef name="computeperimeter" > class="org.apache.demo.ComputePerimeterTask"/> > <roledef name="shape" class="org.apache.demo.ShapeInterface"/> > <typedef name="circle" class="org.apache.demo.Circle" role="shape"/> > <typedef name="square" class="org.apache.demo.Square" role="shape"/> > > How this would work : > > - taskdefs are normal, just to understand how this would be used > - roledef : creates a hash table linking a role name with an interface > - role attribute in typedef : do something so that > introspectionhelper will translate > addConfigured(org.apache.demo.ShapeInterface) in the > ComputeAreaTask and ComputePerimeterTask into : > > > addConfiguredCircle > > and > > addConfiguredSquare > > the role attribute would allow an expansion of the > addConfigured method to suit different typedef names which > are expected in the project. > > Antoine >
