Re: [RomaFramework-dev] R: Plugin-based development in ROMA?

[ted s. <emo...@ya...>]

Luca Garulli wrote:
> But what you need it's quite different: to define "virtual" class.
> Namely...Class without a ".class" but definited at run-time. Current release
> doesn't support this feature completely. Roma creates a SchemaClass instance
> for any Class definition. SchemaClass inherits SchemaClassDefinition.
> SchemaClassDefinition is unjoined with .class. So I should change some part
> of ROMA where uses SchemaClass to use the base abstract
> SchemaClassDefinition rather.
>
> SchemaClassDefinition is what you need. You can build instances at run-time
> and register their in the SchemaManager to be viewed by all Roma modules and
> aspects.
>
> I need to refactor a little bit classes to support full "virtual" class
> definition. It seems to me an important feature to release before 1.0!
>
> Do I have understand correctly your needs?
>   

I downloaded the ROMA code and took a look at SchemaClassDefinition.
Yes!  SchemaClassDefinition looks like exactly the kind of thing I need.

I will try to implement my proposed extension to the menu example 
myself.  That will be a good way for me to learn more about ROMA.
Of course, I will eventually need to pick up the ROMA refactorings to 
always use SchemaClassDefinition.

Thanks,
-ted