Sylvain Wallez pisze: > Again I doubt of the real value of a common unified pipeline if all the > responsibility of ensuring proper compatibility between components > (including possible data conversion) is delegated to components. This > leaves a lot of complexity to component implementers (except in the > simple straightforward push scenario), and the features of the pipeline > will be limited to linking the components together and caching.
I've been having similar concerns thus I'm eagerly waiting for some non-XML examples that would change my mind. > Furthermore, people will have to take great care of choosing components > that fit together, or they will get exceptions at pipeline execution > time. Hmm... reminds me of some criticism about the StAX stream API :-D LOL! :-) > So let's agree that we disagree. I'll see what you guys come up with and > hope I'll change my mind then. I just wanted to say that I share many points with Sylvain even if it's still hard for me to say which option I prefer. This will require some more thinking... -- Best regards, Grzegorz Kossakowski
