On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 10:04, Eduard Witteveen wrote: > On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 09:38, Gerard van Enk wrote: > > Why would you wanna move code outside of the builders? Isn't the whole > > MMBase idea you can have functionality *inside* the builders?
> Well, maybe it is time to define what functionality should be where? > My opinion is that buildersnodes are somekinda beans. This beans contain > information and can do modifcations on that information. > Also they can be serialized to the database(or somewhere else) > An example could be a virtual field 'age' on a node that contains an > birthdate. > The problem with beans and image's is that they are now displaying > themselve as an image and as an url(generating html code, dependend of > the location where the request came from). Actually the image servlet needs to know about icaches so even images is not a good example of builder with functionality. so what is? the email builder?
