Hi,
Some thoughts:
- I've already created a Jira ticket for the annotation processing stuff
and submitted an initial patch with a quick and dirty implementation. I
didn't want to implement the feature and refactor in the same patch.
- Currently, I'm using the xbean-finder library from Geronimo for the
processing stuff. This library uses ASM under the hood which worries me,
since ASM is a widely used library and it has lead to many classloading
issues because of other frameworks packaging different versions of ASM.
- I have also created an annotation scanner of my own, which is actually
quite fast and doesn't have a dependency on any library, except Java.
- The class which is responsible for configuring myfaces is
FacesConfigurator. I've inserted my annotation scanning code into this
class, which will become quite cumbersome if I continue this way.
- My current plan is to use a Strategy implementation. The
FacesConfigurator contains a list of Configurator instances. This list can
be extended by the application developer by providing a configuration
parameter or something like that. This will enable developers to create
Spring or Guice Configurators. However, I think there are not many vendors
who will use this, since it is specific to MyFaces. But providing extension
hooks is always a good idea IMHO. I don't think that making the annotation
scanning code pluggable is very useful since the xbean-finder library is
already very easy to use.
I'm interested in your plans. Please compose a new message and link back to
this one to keep things clear.
/JK
On Feb 26, 2009 9:31pm, Curtiss Howard <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi JK,
Out of curiosity, what are your plans for implementing the annotation
configuration code (I assume you're talking about @ManagedBean and the
like)? Mike Concini and I are both going to be doing a good bit of
work on MyFaces and one spot in particular that we'd like to (try to)
have input on is the annotation processing. We have a couple ideas
related to how to architect annotation processing such that the
annotation scanning logic can be "pluggable". We feel that this would
help open the door to possibly allowing implementors/extenders of
MyFaces to make performance improvements in that area. Would you like
to start a discussion about this with us?
Thanks,
Curtiss Howard
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Jan-Kees van Andel
[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks guys and also thanks to the rest of the MyFaces team for the
trust.
> The first thing I'm gonna try to implement is the annotation based
> configuration code. I think that's a fair amount of work for now. We'll
see
> what to do after that. I'm sure there's plenty of work when that's done
>
> /JK
>
>
>
> 2009/2/26 Grant Smith [email protected]>
>>
>> Hi Jan-Kees,
>>
>> Congratulations and welcome !
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Simon Lessard
[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Congratulations, welcome in!
>>>
>>> ~ Simon
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Hazem Saleh [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Congratulations Jan-kees.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Matthias Wessendorf
[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The Myfaces PMC is proud to announce a new addition to our
community.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please welcome Jan-Kees van Andel as the newest MyFaces committer!
>>>>> Jan-Kees is an active member of the myfaces community, especially in
>>>>> the myfaces 2.0 section of the code
>>>>>
>>>>> @Jan-Kees: Please add yourself to the Master-POM at
>>>>>
>>>>>
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/myfaces/myfaces-master-pom/trunk/pom.xml
>>>>>
>>>>> -Matthias
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Matthias Wessendorf
>>>>>
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>>>>> twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Hazem Ahmed Saleh Ahmed
>>>>
>>>> Author of (The Definitive Guide to Apache MyFaces and Facelets):
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Guide-Apache-MyFaces-Facelets/dp/1590597370
>>>>
>>>> Web blog: http://www.jroller.com/page/HazemBlog
>>>>
>>>> [Web 2.0] Google Maps Integration with JSF:
>>>> http://code.google.com/p/gmaps4jsf/
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=IntroductiontoGMaps4JSF
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Grant Smith
>>
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