on 3/26/00 8:39 PM, Dave Bryson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So if I have to do this, why not
> just have some
> type of Template engine that generates the BOs and the Peers from the XML file
> and recompile?
Right, but the problem is that most Peers also have additional stuff in them
added on after the fact. Management of the autogeneration stuff + extra
stuff would be a royal pain in the ass. This is actually another reason I
don't like JSP..."what if" you wanted to modify the autogenerated servlet
for some crazy reason?
If you take a look at the latest beta of Town
<http://www.working-dogs.com/town/>, it does a pretty good job of doing the
autogeneration stuff except that it is generated from a db.schema instead of
a xml file...this is probably a good approach until someone writes an
XML->DB Schema generator...i noticed that Kevin started working on this in
Jetspeed...i really wish he would put this stuff into Turbine instead so
that we can re-use it more easily...
> But as you've already said, the template stuff isn't anything new. So I think
> the question
> is how to dynamically aggregate/add "stuff" to my BO's and Peers at runtime. I
> seen this type of
> functionality (aggregation) in Voyager from objectspace a while ago when I was
> playing with it.
How did they do it? ;-)
> I'm going to keep thinking on this because I really believe this is a "hump"
> that everyone needs
> to get over. There just seems to be to much redundant work that goes into BOs
> ->
> Peer -> Mapping.
I agree! I have spent the last two days seriously pondering ways around this
problem! ;-( I don't want to commit my XMLDatabaseMapMaker until we have a
good idea for a solution for this...I'm totally willing to work on the
implementation as long as it doesn't involve autogenerating code...
> Let me know ( and I know you will ) if I'm off track here on what your trying
> to
> accomplish.
Nope...you are right on...
-jon
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