David E Jones wrote:
Ah, a little jab. Very nice.
That wasn't my intention. I was simply restating what happened. I'm sorry you took it that way.
I think that conversation was about a bit of a different topic (if I understand write what you are implying here, which I admit I'm not totally clear on), and your quote from me is a bit out of context and a misinterpretation in my opinion.
The conversation was about saving and restoring user preferences that control the UI. I read the emails before composing the message, so I'm pretty sure I had the correct context.
There is a feature that already exists for something like this. I'll write what I remember real quick and invite you to research it if you're interested. What it does it keep a Map in the session and anything put into that Map will be persisted and then restored when a user logs in. In other words, the persistence is meant to be fairly automatic so that an application element can just read and write the values in the session.
I'm fully aware of the session persistance. That is not what Si and I are looking for. That capability will not serve our needs.
I fully appreciate your comments. I'm almost finished with a patch. Once it's done, you'll see what we're trying to accomplish.
