Andrzej,
My initial impressions are very favorable and the system as you have laid it
out is very close to what I imagined it would be like. I especially like the
transport and protocol adapter ideas and your build process has nicely solved a
number of problems that I was uncertain about.
At this point I do not see anything obvious that would prevent the types of
operations that I envisioned for the Wiring Tool and in fact your XML Embedlet
configuration file seems like it would allow for much more detailed information
to be presented to a graphic Embedlet assembler than what is provided by the
JavaBeans Introspection mechanism. For example, Introspection exposes
Properties and Event Registration methods using very terse descriptions but the
availability of an XML configuration file would allow quite detailed
descriptions of an Embedlet's public interface that would be very helpful to a
graphic component assembler.
It is interesting how this discussion document deals with the Embedlets
specification and its Outpost reference implementation materials concurrently
but I think this does help one envision how the whole system fits together.
I am looking forward to digging into this document much further over the next
couple of days.
Thank you very much for putting this all together!
Ted
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