> From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- Jose Alberto Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I think we are now in the new world of ANT 1.6 > > (the wold of namespaces and antlibs). > > We should stride to focus our efforts so that > > all our extension points (of all sorts) follow > > the antlibs/typedef approach and move away from > > having property files with magic names defining > > special types. > > > I'm not sure what alternative you're suggesting. The > properties files themselves are used by <typedef>. I guess > this hasn't been implemented yet, but I seem to recall a > message to the effect that the core tasks could/should/would? > be defined by an <antlib> for the default namespace, which > would consist of <taskdef > resource="o.a.t.a.taskdefs/defaults.properties" /> and > <typedef resource="o.a.t.a.types/defaults.properties" > /> until such time as someone decided to expand it > into individual <*def> elements, if ever. I don't > feel that the properties files themselves are all that > important; they are just the simplest (for now) means of > defining the core types. The point here is that > <globmapper>, <identitymapper>,<flattenmapper> et al., having > been <typedef>d, would be available as specific elements in > addition to the BC <mapper type="*">. >
I am all with you on the goal, my only point is that rather than creating yet another way for mappers, we should do best by starting working on 1.7's features so we try to converge to a unified model. It would mean that mappers can be in their own antlib library, use their owm NameSpace and all the other goodies of the model. > > I believe that is the aim for 1.7 with the > > add(Interface) > > methods. > > > which are these? > This are new instrospection methods so that Conditions, mappers, etc can be added and made available to all tasks automagically. They are suppose to be part of 1.7. Jose Alberto > -Matt > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
