Heh, just goes to show, an original idea is a rare commodity these days ;) On Mon, February 14, 2005 11:40 am, Joe Germuska said: > Sounds like Jelly, or Marmalade. > > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/jelly/ > http://marmalade.codehaus.org/
I wasn't aware of those. I'd heard the name Jelly before, but never Marmalade. Why is it, by the way, that programming has to make you hungry?!? A lot of us aren't in as good a shape as we used to be anyway, we don't need various preserves reminding us all day :) > I'm convinced that XML is a lousy way to specify things like this. You might be right... People do try and cram way too much into XML IMHO, but I'm not completely convinced yet. I think I'd like to see a failed implementation of the idea before passing judgement. I share your concern to a lesser degree though for certain. :) > You've just described struts-bsf. > http://struts.apache.org/bsf/ Your right, and that one I did know about. :) That project worries me a bit though, for the reasons I mentioned earlier, hence the reason I started coming up with my own expression language... I thought I might be able to expose the flexibility I want without all the complexity and potential problems of a true scripting language. Struts-BSF is still a more than interesting project though, concerns aside :) > I think scripting languages are likely to be more effective than XML > for specifying any kind of complex logic. The question that remains though is where you store the bits of script... an XML config file would seem to be a reasonable answer to that question. > Joe -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
