Ant Just wanted to bump this to the top and say that I did see you reference to this thread on the "builder structure" thread [1] and that I haven't forgotten. I want to get all my thoughts down in one go and it's taking me a little while.
I think what might be a good approach is if we all try and get all our ideas in this area out on the table. They will all be different but we can at least then ask "why" and understand what implicit requirements we are carrying around in our heads.Then we can compare and contrast. Having a critique of a small part of each others mental model seems ineffective and is not, apparently, leading to happiness. Regards Simon [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40tuscany.apache.org/msg09660.html
