RE: [Xdoclet-user] Generic "column name" support

[Patrick L. <pli...@ho...>]

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" <ar...@ya...>
>To: "'Patrick Lightbody'" <pli...@ho...>, 
><xdo...@li...>
>Subject: RE: [Xdoclet-user] Generic "column name" support
>Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 20:52:26 +0330
>
> > From: Patrick Lightbody [mailto:pli...@ho...]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 8:46 PM
> > To: ar...@ya...; xdo...@li...
> > 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" <ar...@ya...>
> > >To: "'Patrick Lightbody'" <pli...@ho...>,
> > ><xdo...@li...>
> > >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: xdo...@li...
>[mailto:xdoclet-user-
> > > > ad...@li...] On Behalf Of Patrick Lightbody
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 1:17 PM
> > > > To: xdo...@li...
> > > > 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
> > > >
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