Richard,
Richard Wallace wrote:
Enrique Rodriguez wrote:
...
6) Moved all the (get|put)Unsigned(Byte|Short|Int) methods into a
utility class called ByteBufferUtil.
Regarding #6, in the early days of MINA we found we had a need for
unsigned values in various protocols so we put them directly on MINA's
ByteBuffer:
http://mina.apache.org/report/trunk/apidocs/org/apache/mina/common/ByteBuffer.html
So, this may be a reason to use MINA ByteBuffer's.
Ah. I didn't know those methods were on the MINA ByteBuffers. AFAIK
they weren't being used by the protocol-dns before. A proposal came up
a while ago on the MINA list to create a separate jar that just had the
ByteBuffer in it. I wouldn't mind seeing the shared code using
something like that.
I also don't see
any reason to reduce our dependency on MINA. Especially with more
complicated protocols, there is a need to use features of the
framework to reduce complexity. If the framework is truly pluggable,
then it isn't a framework, it's a component.
My only issue is with being too tightly coupled to any framework. I
love MINA. It's the reason I'm interested in working on different
networking protocol implementations. It's just really slick. But, I've
learned not to put too many eggs in one basket.
I think the use of MINA will be inevitable. Having dependencies is not
such a bad thing. It's just something that needs to be managed.
Alex
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