I enjoy admitting when I am wrong, when I am really wrong.

The first thing I whacked when I refactored Ed's library was the concept of
Decorators.  Personally, I thought that the idea was too heavy for a simple
table library.  It requires table users to write java code which at the
corporate app developer level invites disaster!  I replaced it with built it
sorting intelligence that ... is still flawed, buggy and will never be
correct because correct is subjective when it is your data on display.

Decorators are good, but I still don't like the fact that it is a class
instead of an interface, but we can work with that and maintain backwards
compatibility.

So, this library we are working on has decorators.  I like them becuase it
permits the user to customize his view without changing the displaytag
library.  They are correctly a good part of what we are offering.  In fact,
we should be offering more of them (which I believe has been mentioned
before).

I am proposing a separate module (or at least a package) that consists of
Decorator implementations.  I am sure there are displaytag users out there
with Decorator extensions that could be reused as well.

What do you think guys?   Is anyone awake?

Ben



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