On 12 Oct 2005, at 07:50, Craig Walls wrote:
Good to hear...now one more question:
Is this all that XBean is meant to do? I got the impression that
GBean had
a much loftier purpose than mapping bean class names and properties
to XML
tags and attributes. I somehow got the impression that GBean would add
some microkernal features to Spring.
Yeah. There's a kernel module in xbean which is a simple microkernel;
capable of booting up a spring.xml, setting up a classpath and then
booting up other spring.xml files inside the new classpath.
Is that to also be part of XBean? Or is XBean simply what I wrote
about in
my blog? (Incidentally, I favor keeping XBean's purpose simple and
having
a different project for microkernal features...but I'll leave those
decisions up to you guys.)
Agreed.
The stuff you blogged about is xbean-spring which is the spring
module of xbean and just focusses on the XML language side of things
& having nice support for things like ObjectName, QName and mapping
beans/properties to namespaces etc.
Anything else like the kernel/server are gonna be simple separate
modules - so things will be small, have few dependencies and very
focussed. Though I expect a few more modules to arrive over time -
but xbean-spring is gonna stay lean & mean.
James
-------
http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/
