> -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Karasulu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 16:03 > To: James Developers List > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Avalon - moving away from ? > > On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 09:27, Paul Hammant wrote: > > This is an enabler, not migration. We're facilitating alternate > > deployment capabilities, not closing off current ones. > > This makes so much sense for projects like Eve which attempt to enable > integration with everything under the sun. As you know we have these > POJO's and separate wrappers for Avalon and eventually other IoC > frameworks. This will even enable us to integrate into Geronimo perhaps > with GBean wrappers but I was told I may not need them since the POJO's > might be usable directly. > > > As it would happen, I think the starting point is Cornerstone rather > > than James. Again as an enabler. > > Oh good thing you mentioned this. Cornerstone is the missing link for > me in the POJO'ification process. Obviously I depend on it and use it > with Avalon deployment. However it would be nice to just have POJO > versions of the Cornerstone components. This way they're as common as > using jakarta-commons classes without being tied to any component > framework. Cornerstone I think would be used much more readily if this > were the case. > > However I do have this one question which I should know but just in case > perhaps someone can clarify it. Aren't the classes within the excalibur > libraries used to build the Cornerstone components the POJO's we're > looking for?
Yes. The cornerstone components (in most cases) handle the adaptation between the Phoenix/Merlin component model and the Excalibur utilities. In a couple of cases the cornerstone components are not dependent on Excalibur (store and sockets). Steve. > Alex > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apache Excalibur Project -- URL: http://excalibur.apache.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache Excalibur Project -- URL: http://excalibur.apache.org/
