On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Rickard Öberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2009-12-05 21.16, Niclas Hedhman wrote: >>> >>> Both ESD and ET contain description of the shape of the entity >>> (properties and associations). What is the difference between the two >>> ? Which one should I use ? and why ? >> >> I will let Rickard try to answer this one. My guess is that this is a >> result of evolutionary changes bring two similar thing closer and >> closer and happen to end up at the same spot. > > Yes, I looked at them, and the above seems to be correct. There used to be a > more clear difference between them, where EntityType was supposed to be > serializable, so that an EntityStore could put it into its stored state, to > support versioning, but this is no longer the case. > > I would suggest that EntityType is merged into EntityStateDescriptor. WDYT?
I don't have any argument against it. If a versionable descriptor is needed, the ES can fabricate one easily. Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug _______________________________________________ qi4j-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/qi4j-dev
