I'm down with CiDIT over xbean. I'd do this for 2.0. I hate this XML crap. Maybe this is something I can dedicate myself to as others work on replication.
I think this XBean stuff is way to mysterious without any documentation. Alex On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected]>wrote: > > - Documentation : This is also an something we must deliver. Documentation >>> is not only good for our users, it's also good for us, as developpers, >>> because writtng documentation helps to see where the API is not consistent. >>> >> >> Main problem is the configuration, which has changed with each minor >> version. In order to make any progress here, we need to finalize the >> configuration for the 2.0 first. There must be a decision at some point >> about the technologies used etc. (XML, xbeans, stored in DIT, ...). We had >> discussions about this topic every month. >> > > Ok. Today, I spent something like 5 hours trying to get some new classes > injected into LdapService, and make them work nicely with xbeans. So far, > it's a plain failure. > > I will be very clear : if we are to continue with xbeans+spring, I will -1 > the release. This is absolutely not mature, cryptic, unusable, undocumented. > In other words, it recalls me Maven 1. > > Unless xbeans reach another level of stability, I want it out of the > configuration. I'm fed of this piece of garbage. > > I think this is something we have to discuss at ApacheCon, but the decision > should be done on the ML. > > > -- > -- > cordialement, regards, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com > directory.apache.org > > >
