On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 09:34, Age Mooy wrote: > > I think I > > would tackle making Torque a component which will mean > > cleaning up its initialization mechanism unless it's changed > > since the last time I looked at it. At my last glance the > > whole show was start by nudging the Criteria class which is > > just plain wrong. > > It is pretty clean now. Most of the work will probably be converting the > Avalon Configuration to a Commons Configuration. Are you aware of any > code that's already doing that ?
I would just rip out the commons-configuration and use the Avalon stuff. You could make an adapter but the avalon configuration stuff is far better and is much closer to the Preferences API. But I'm sure you could make a simple adapter. I would just fully avalonize it. > > > I have been thinking about Torque + Avalon for a while now > > and I don't > > > see a clear way of getting rid of the extremely static nature of > > > Torque without a complete redesign (for which I have no time). > > > > Yes, that's a problem but probably not insurmountable. At > > first we might have to say that it looks like a component but > > that you can only run one instance safely. > > Yeah, sounds like a solid short-term solution. > > > > The only thing I can think off (and which I will hopefully > > get around > > > to doing this week) is writing a simple Avalon wrapper that > > only makes > > > sure the static Torque gets configured and initialized. This hardly > > > seems compatible with the Avalon way of things :( > > > > No, but it's a start. Torque is highly problematic in a > > component-based system but we can work around it. People have > > for years now so it won't be anything new. > > I'll get to work then :) > > Age > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
