I don't know if anything has been going on with plugin changes since
this email exchange, but it's finally time to prepare to ship a version.
Norm, I'm going to freeze the code for JiBX 1.0 RC0 tomorrow evening,
and will give you a link for a clean distribution. If you can get the
jars set up for the plugin we can get both the plugin and the RC0
distribution live next Wednesday. Between tomorrow and Wednesday I'll be
traveling, but I need the time in any case to clean up documentation.
- Dennis
Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
I think your (a) approach is great, and should definitely be a time
saver. Probably the best that can be done right now is to use this
approach but check for an exception thrown during the binding process.
If that occurs perhaps you can pop up a dialog to tell the user to do
a full build.
Longer term you may be able to make use of the validation information
returned by the binding model, which gives the binding file name, line
number, and column number for each problem found. That could probably
be used to flag the problems right in the binding definition file.
It'll take a little restructuring to get at this, though; right now
it's buried down a couple levels deep within the binding compiler run
(just because that was the easiest way to backport this from the 2.0
code).
- Dennis
Dennis M. Sosnoski
Enterprise Java, XML, and Web Services
Training and Consulting
http://www.sosnoski.com
Redmond, WA 425.885.7197
Ian Phillips wrote:
<caveat>Half finished thoughts ahead</caveat> but it's getting late
so I'll send this out for comment and try to get some sleep now ;-)
I won't get chance to make my last few changes until the weekend now,
but then I'll mail what I have to Norm and if he's happy with the
changes that I've made then they can be checked into CVS.
WRT the "incremental" build approach: it seemed to be the best that
could be accomplished. I guess that there are two broad approaches
that can be taken at this time:
(a) Attempt to automatically keep the generated classes up to date
with the minimum overhead. This is the approach that I took but if
there may be problems with it then it may not be the best one at
present.
(b) Accept that the user must manually trigger a JiBX compile but
provide sufficient information to allow this to be done as needed.
This would mean adding some kind of notification feature.
My thinking to date has been that (a) is the better approach and, in
the long term (i.e. when there is a real incremental compilation
option available) I still think that this is the case. In the short
term however, I'm starting to think that maybe the better option is
to alert the user to the current "freshness" of the bindings and
allow them to trigger a JiBX compile manually as they see fit.
I'm going to be spending a few hours stuck on trains over the next
day or so, so I'll try to read up on how much work a decorator based
notification mechanism would be, then I can make a more informed
choice as to the best approach to take with the plug-in when I go to
it over the weekend.
Cheers,
Ian.
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