Re: [Arianne-devel] Item xml draft file

[Miguel A. B. L. <mig...@ho...>]

> > Well you are perfectly right here, but what im hoping for in the end, is
> > some form of script language after all. A script language that perhaps 
>shud
> > issue the keywords we define in the xml files... and for what I know... 
>it
> > was for that purpose I started this discussion.
>
>I don't see the scripting language coming up soon with a java-based server. 
>Java is it's own scripting-engine, and perhaps a bit too slow on its own to 
>carry another scripting-language. On the other hand, it depends very much 
>where and how we would use scripting anyway.

I have tried to keep myself out of writting on this thread, because I 
suffered from featuritis on the past. I have read them all and breathing 
slowy I have repeated KISS, KISS, KISS...

Java as you say is a script language, so where is the problem? We already 
have the script language, maps right now are loaded as script files.

Java can be our script language.

I myself tried to do something like that on June for making creature 
creation simpler but I failed.
I mainly see two problems on the examples I have been reading:
1) There is no difference between an item and a class of items, we want to 
define attributes for a class of items, but then we need to fill world with 
items themselves.

2) NPC and creatures has a logic that MUST be coded. IMHO Java should be the 
way to go. Jython showed on mapacman that it was too slow to be considered.

Regards,
Miguel

PD: I will try to reply a summarize post when I read all the thread.