As part of the work of making a GUI IDEA plugin for jBehave, I think I need
to do some changes on the jBehave core:

* Get rid of verifier field.  There are a bit of code handling this field, yet
the only place it is being passed in is from the behaviors of the
classes themselves.  I think removing this field will lead to less
code with the same functionality.

* In order to report the behaviors so that they can show up in the
plugin, I need to create another implementation MethodHandler that can
do more that counting.  Should I make it private like the
MethodCounter, and add anothr method on BehaviorClass like
"report(BehaviorReporter reporter)", or should I just make the
"traverseMethodsWith" method public?  Now I am writng this, create
another method on BehaviorClass sounds like a good idea.

* The design of BehaviourClass implies that you can have a
BehaviourClass inside another BehaviourClass.  In order to be able to
build this tree structure on I also need to add another method to
MethodHandler, something like "finishHandleBehaviourClass".  This
makes me think maybe the MethodHandler is a visitor pattern after all.

* It is kind of silly to load an instance of the BehaviorClass just to
do the report, so I am thinking of making the instance field in
BefhaviorMethod lazily loaded.

Does this make sense?
-- 
Shane
http://www.shaneduan.com

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