Re: [Esims-devs] To go entirely Tiger or not
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From: Ashay M. <ash...@gm...> - 2006-12-06 19:43:11
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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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Esims-devs mailing list > Esi...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/esims-devs > |