Re: [Esims-devs] To go entirely Tiger or not

[Ashay M. <ash...@gm...>]

i really like generics and it has helped us solve a lot of repeat coding for
us in my company .. i was planning to adapt that in the code for  this
project .... i think Java 5 is mature enuf and it should be used as it elps
us learn more things (even though we have a lot in our plate to learn .. but
hey we are doing an OS project to learn right? :))

ashay

On 12/6/06, Juby Victor <vi...@ne...> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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