Well, i wasn't thinking any tags would be changed, per se. Just a new attribute or tag would be added and then the templates would detect whether to use the app server tag (@jboss:column-name) or the generic tag.
-Pat >From: "Ara Abrahamian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'Patrick Lightbody'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: [Xdoclet-user] Generic "column name" support >Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 20:52:26 +0330 > > > From: Patrick Lightbody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 8:46 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [Xdoclet-user] Generic "column name" support > > > > > > It doesn't seem to me that it is anything more than adding some >"if/else" > > logic to the .j files and deciding on a location to place this global > > name. > > I'd be more than happy to send in some patches with my ideas for this. >:) > >The implementation should be straight forward (thanks to the template >engine). The important thing is semantics. This is very debatable and >remember it's easy to modify template files but expensive to change @tag >semantics (specially from an end-user's perspective). > >Ara. > > > >From: "Ara Abrahamian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: "'Patrick Lightbody'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Subject: RE: [Xdoclet-user] Generic "column name" support > > >Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:38:40 +0330 > > > > > >Go back to old ejbdoclet archives, we've already talked about it >there > > >:o) > > >In fact I proposed what I called *unified persistence tags*. I'm too > > >much busy these days to tackle it lonely. So you're welcome to join > > >Xdoclet-devel list and continue this discussion there and actually > > >implement it. It's tricky to find a good generic solution for it. > > > > > >PS: These kind of standard @tags should be even embraced by Sun and >ejb > > >vendors too, it'll let you define a set of standard @tags and viola >it > > >deploys on anything. And I'm not talking about embracing Xdoclet and >its > > >engine but just the @tags. > > > > > >Ara. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:xdoclet-user- > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Patrick Lightbody > > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 1:17 PM > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: [Xdoclet-user] Generic "column name" support > > > > > > > > A feature I'd like to see is for the vendor tasks to start >supporting > > >a > > > > generic "column" tag. Right now, I need to do: > > > > > > > > @jboss:column-name name="id" > > > > @orion:persistence persistence-name="id" > > > > > > > > To declare for orion and jboss that the column for that value be >named > > > > "id". > > > > I think we can still keep support for this, but why add: > > > > > > > > @ejb:column-name name="id" > > > > > > > > Yes, I know technically there is no concept of a "column name" in >the > > > > standard ejb-jar.xml, so putting it in the ejb namespace might >suck, > > >but > > > > basically, the idea is to get all the <vendor>.j files to agree on >a > > >way > > > > to > > > > specify these column names as possible. This would allow for my >EJBs > > >to > > > > support app servers that I didn't even plan on. > > > > > > > > In fact, this idea could be extended further even, such as >table-name, > > >and > > > > auto-create-table and auto-remove-table. I suppose this list would > > >have to > > > > be limited to a common subset the major of the vendor tasks >support > > > > though. > > > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > > > -Pat > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > > >http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Xdoclet-user mailing list > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xdoclet-user > > > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________ > > >Do You Yahoo!? > > >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Xdoclet-user mailing list > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xdoclet-user > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at >http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > >_________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _______________________________________________ Xdoclet-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xdoclet-user
