[Esims-devs] To go entirely Tiger or not

[Juby V. <vi...@ne...>]

Some thoughts on moving our app to tiger

The plus points are

1) Autoboxing
2) new for loop that looks cleaner
3) Annotations ( I find some really stupid though)

The reservations I have are

1) Makes declarations of  'Types'  & Collections more tedious and 
'visibly complex'. It types go wrong a lot of time will be wasted in 
debugging why the class dint compile
2) One has to write "Java 5" code than java code,
    (I dont see a scenario where we will add a Teacher to a list of 
students or so.. coz the entities and VOs we use are sensibly named.)
3)  Repeating DAO problem can be handled by just sub classing one base 
class for all entities that need to be persisted and checking if the 
object is an instance of  that base class.
4) Additional learning curve (as though we dont have enuf)


I feel that we must use a subset of Tiger than just adopting it just 
because its there.. i doubt the value addition it brings into the 
project in just taking it up entirely.

In essence "use what makes sense" is what  I feel , but I go with the 
majority since the code will work both ways

Comments plz

Best regds
JV