----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen McConnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have basicaly no experience in C#' but there is an interest in Merlin.net based on Merlin 3.0. In the short term I was thinking to myself about the avalon-sandbox/meta package in this context. It's small, complete, and is a excelent candidate for a building block of a container framework. It's basically a small set of imutable classes that describe a component to a container. I would be really interested in any feedback concerning the the package and any issues we may need to deal with in the delivery of a C# version.
I studied the meta project in avalon-sandbox. There are no problems porting it to .net. The only thing I could say is about the Type class as long as "Type" is a very common name in .net that represents every type (as java does using Class). But namespaces should handle it.
I was wondering about "type checking". Seems that every check occurs in the type loading/initialization. Maybe this type checking could be done in a transparent way using ContextBoundObject/Interception in .Net. Then just a simple "new" could fire every checking and no explicit type checking would be necessary. Anyway is too soon to say. If I'm in the right path signalize that and I would create some samples, tests, labs..
TO be honest, I wouldn't want to port it over to .NET. I think with .NET we can explore some new territory where we don't need an object model for the meta information. Esp. since in .NET the attributes are part of the class. In Java things are a bit different in the short term.
Part of the implications of the technical part of the RRT I put forth was that in an ideal world, the object model for meta information would not be needed. In fact, it would be limiting the potential of what the container could do.
I think that .NET provides the clean slate we can start with to use the ideas I set forth.
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