On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin <[email protected]> wrote: > as everyone who's subscribed to the commit records can probably tell, > i've started to try to tidy up and simplify the rat code base. > > i know that the old code base is difficult to understand. it's crufty > with quite a lot of half baked features in there. there are also too > many interfaces. so, i'm going to start by taking a look at simplifying > the code base by cleaning out all the unnecessary complexity i can find. > > once this is done, it would probably be a good idea to talk about a new > architecture which will make the code more accessible and easier to work on.
Candidate #1 for me is the XML serialization. I don't see any point in manually crafted XML serialization when we have Transformer or XMLStreamWriter around. Sole reason for not changing this in the past is the multitude of test cases in that area. Jochen -- Don't trust a government that doesn't trust you.
