Re: [Springframework-developer] ApplicationContext without the use of XML

[Eduardo I. I. <zi...@su...>]

What about SDL? Its the HiveMind format. Its very clean, and as capable as XML 
(it don't support mixed content, but is not used in config files anyhow).

I would like to see Spring definition file in this format, I don't like to 
mentally parse the XML to find what is the real information. Some can say that 
it's laziness but it in everyday work it really makes a difference. I could use 
the saved "brain cycles" to something else ;)

It would not be difficult to create an XSLT to transform XML to SDL.

The SDL web site:
http://jakarta.apache.org/hivemind/sdl.html


And a good example from the site:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<module id="some.module" version="1.0.0">
   <configuration id="ControlPipeline">
     <schema>
       <element name="processor">

          <attribute name="name" required="true"/>
          <attribute name="service-id" required="true"/>
          <attribute name="before"/>
          <attribute name="after"/>

          <conversion class="some.module.PipelineContribution">
            <map property="controlService" attribute="service-id" 
translator="service"/>
          </conversion>

       </element>
     </schema>
   </configuration>
</module>	

would become the SDL file:

module (id=some.module version="1.0.0")
{
   configuration (id=ControlPipeline)
   {
     schema
     {
       element (name=processor)
       {
         attribute (name=name required=true)
         attribute (name=service-id required=true)
         attribute (name=before)
         attribute (name=after)

         conversion (class=some.module.PipelineContribution)
         {
           map (property=controlService attribute=service-id translator=service)
         }
       }
     }
   }
}




Dmitriy Kopylenko wrote:
> What would you like it to look like?
> 
> 
> Remco Bos wrote:
> 
>> Is anyone using the springframework ApplicationContext without the use 
>> of XML (applicationContext.xml)? I know it’s possible to write your 
>> own AbstractApplicationContext implementation, but has anyone tried it?
>>
>>  
>>
>> I don’t like XML configuration files… I really don’t. First I had to 
>> learn the beautiful java language, and now I feel like a scriptkiddy 
>> again, coding bean mappings and workflow stuff (mvc) and other things 
>> in XML files. (I do see the beauty of dependency injection, but XML…)
>>
> 
> 
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