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I am with Geoff. I think it is too late now to be making API changes
when it is not broken. OTOH, it is something that people rarely, at
least I have never used it, so I'll be look to the community for an
answer. May be this needs to be cross-posted in the user's list also.

-Harish



On 7/27/05, Howard Lewis Ship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The method initialize() is invoked from AbstractPage's default (no
> arguments) constructor.
> 
> This is truly problematic.  It dates back to an earlier time in
> Tapestry's life, before runtime code generation took care of
> initializing and re-initializing properties.
> 
> It causes a major headache for me ... it means that you can't easily
> mock a page the way you can mock an component (using EasyMock and the
> EasyMock class extension).  EasyMock trips over the initialize() call
> from the default constructor.  This actually happened to me when I was
> trying to demonstrate EasyMock and testing for Tapestry at a client.
> 
> I would like to eliminate this method now, rather than wait for 4.1 (I
> marked it as deprecated sometime during 4.0). Doing so will allow us
> to document the proper Tapestry testing story for pages, not just
> components.
> 
> --
> Howard M. Lewis Ship
> Independent J2EE / Open-Source Java Consultant
> Creator, Jakarta Tapestry
> Creator, Jakarta HiveMind
> 
> Professional Tapestry training, mentoring, support
> and project work.  http://howardlewisship.com
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