Hi devs,

We have avoided this discussion but it's time to settle it. We need to decide 
if there are candidate macros that we should write as wiki macros in our 
default XE distribution. And if so what are the rule for deciding whether a 
macro should be written as a wiki macro or as a java macro.

Some ideas:
- java macros are much easier to test
- java macros are easier to develop since you have a full-fledged IDE 
(debugging, syntax coloring, code validation, etc)
- java macros can obey styling rule, such as checkstyle passing
- wiki macros can be removed so users can't be sure the wiki macro will always 
be there since it's only provided with the default XAR

Proposal
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- If the macro is a generic macro then it should be written as a Java macro
- If the macro is application-specific (for ex a macro specific to the Blog 
application) then it can be written as a Wiki macro

WDYT?

Thanks
-Vincent

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