We're going to be looking at ways to possibly get rid of the enablers. Stay tuned...
-Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heng Sin Low" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 9:31 AM Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Decision: Xwork IoC > Agreed, especially pico is still alpha/beta ware. > > As for the original IoC stuff, I'm not sure the enabler interface is the best > approach. Would it be feasible to discover the component dependency by > inspecting the object's properties ( setter ) ? > > --- Pat Lightbody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All, > > After reading the incredibly long thread here and the mind-numbingly long > > thread in pico-dev, I've come to the following conclusion: > > > > The difference between contructors and bean properties is so small that it's > > impossible to argue one way or the other. Smart people will argue for one > > side or the other till they turn blue, and no solid facts will ever be made. > > > > With that said, I'm making an executive decision (Matt and Jason, back me up > > here ;): just as we provided a simple validation framework and a simple type > > conversion framework in XWork, we should provide a simple IoC framework as > > well. For those that want to live on the wild side, they can use FormProc, > > commons-beanutils, and Spring (or Pico) via their own interceptors. Maybe we > > can even (in the future) start an xwork-components module that is separate. > > However, introducing a dependency on Spring OR Pico does not follow our > > original plan of having small dependencies, especially when providing simple > > support is easily doable (or IoC impl is 200 lines of code). > > > > So what's the plan: we remove pico from xwork and put back the original, > > simple, homegrown ioc stuff. That's the way we've been operating, that's the > > way we agreed to operate at the start, and that's the easiest way to keep > > flamebaits and drama out of WebWork. > > > > -Pat > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft > Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. > Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. > www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 > _______________________________________________ > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
