I thought I'd added a summary of the dependency discussion as comments to the jsf-spec issue #121, but I don't see them now....
https://javaserverfaces-spec-public.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=121 On 1/5/06, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 1/5/06, Adam Winer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yep; also, consecutive calling isn't really right because few of > > the ViewHandler methods return anything indicating "hey, I handled it, > > so everyone else hands off", and because the decoration pattern is in > > fact often required, to support working off the results of another > ViewHandler' > > and tweaking them. > > > > Where Craig says "it would be better than nothing" (referring > > to alphabetical order), I agree in so far as making it a convention, > > but I argued against making it part of the spec, since it's not > > something I wanted to be stuck with for the rest of eternity. > > +1 ... a correct solution would support some sort of dependency declaration > mechanism to determine ordering. > > Craig > >
