How much duplication is there? I think there might be a danger of
ending up with 5 or 10 util-type modules all with one class with 5
methods in them. IIRC geronimo-common started out with an idea like
this. I like the idea of having a single implementation of commonly
used utilities but like even more centralizing the functionality that
uses these utilities.
thanks
david jencks
On Dec 29, 2009, at 12:32 AM, Ivan wrote:
Hi,
Some util methods ( such as copy, close stream quietly, and etc)
are widely used in the Geronimo, the question is that most codes
host their own implementations, some use a private method, some may
create a util class in its own package, others may use third-party
components, for example commons-io.
Since Geronimo 3.0 is under heavy development now. Shall we take
this chance to clean up those duplicate codes ? How about creating a
geronimo-utils module in the framework, the possible classes are
FileUtils, IOUtils, and etc. About the implmentation, we could just
delegate some methods to the third-party libraries if possible, for
others, we might implment them ourselves.
Any comment ?
--
Ivan
