Hi Francis and Benjamin, I am not at all happy with the idea to move all XML classes into a separate module.
Before we go too far, we should consider the impacts as well as different options. First of all I don't like the idea of yet another module - even one with just a few lines of code. Second we need to consider backward compatibility as much as we can. It's OK if we're not 100% compatible 99% will do, but we cannot just change it all. Before we start, can we please define our goal and keep the impact on the existing code base to a minimum to achieve that goal? I know I revived this issue myself recently, but now I am not so sure anymore whether this was a good idea. First I would like to discuss whether we really want to replace log4j with SLF4J. After all its replacing one dependency by another with even losing some functionality. If you see it from that perspective it's doesn't really sound like a good deal, does it? Besides you would still need a logger in the example which means adding log4j there again. So do we really want to use SLF4J or are there other (better) alternatives? Second I would only remove the logging configuration from XMLConfiguration, nothing else and leave the rest in place. We must then implement logging configuration in each of the examples separately, but this is not a big issue. Regards Rainer Francis De Brabandere wrote: > from: Francis De Brabandere [mailto:[email protected]] > to: [email protected] > re: XMLWriter & co? > > Hi Rainer, > > I found this unused class in Empire-DB: XMLWriter. Can I remove it? > > Futher, what are the public abstract Element addXml(Element parent, > long flags); methods in record, column, view and ... used for? I > suppose they can write query info to xml? What would this be used for? > Is there some code that does the reverse? > > I think we should try to keep the number of methods on our classes to > a minimum so that a user can do ctrl-space in his IDE and have a clear > idea what they can/schould do. Should XML export functionality exist > in our core database related classes? > > Greets, > > Francis > > -- > http://www.somatik.be > Microsoft gives you windows, Linux gives you the whole house.
