[Embedlets-dev] Re: Embedlets-developer digest, Vol 1 #42 - 9 msgs

[Andrzej J. T. <an...@ch...>]

> 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.

Super....glad that we're thinking alike (I'm assuming that "great minds think 
alike" is operational rather than the "fools seldom differ" option <grins>)

> 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.

Excellent....that was my thinking as well.  It also neatly avoids some tricky 
versioning (and other container related) issues that serialization of JavaBean 
objects can raise.

> 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 did the combined approach since a spec cannot really be fleshed out and 
functional without an understanding of what an implementation is supposed to 
look like.

> Thank you very much for putting this all together!

You're most welcome!

Andrzej Jan Taramina
Chaeron Corporation: Enterprise System Solutions
http://www.chaeron.com