Re: [Bodington-developers] Plugin interface

[Matthew B. <mat...@ou...>]

Alistair Young wrote:
>> Comments
> 
> pretty impressive work Matthew but I'll bet you'd rather design it  from
> the ground up.

It's not that much work. The main thing was getting the mapping from
Facilities/Resources to another framework going. But this isn't quite
sorted. Initially I wanted to move most of the work of BuildingServlet
into a filter and then use the servlet mappings to decide which servlet
to map the request to but the servlet spec isn't flexible enough so the
mapping has to be done in BuildingServer and then dispatched.

> I can see why My Modules can't go in to 2.8!

I'm not suggesting this should go in either. I'd just been mentioning
this stuff and though I should expand on it.

> Is it worth building on what Matthew has done to start designing bod  as
> a modern application?

If we throw it out that's fine, but I think we need to seriously think
about this stuff. I've being working on it as I worked on MyWeblearn
with the hope of ironing out bugs in it.

> We need functionality now but we can't get it cleanly - we can either 
> keep cobbling it together with Facility but maybe it's time we stood 
> back, took stock and decided what we really want out of bod.

I've been cobbling for a year and have had enough.

> Maybe we need a summit, all devs, consultants and interested parties.

hmmm... beer....

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