[Springframework-developer] Re: HiveMind feedback/questions

[Colin S. <col...@ex...>]

Anybody in the Tapestry world who finds HiveMind 
(http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/hivemind/) interesting should 
probably also take a good look at Spring Framework 
(http://www.springframework.org/). I am unfortunately much more familiar 
with Spring than with HiveMind, so it wouldn't be fair for me to try to 
qualify which containter I think is 'better' (and an assertion like this 
is usually relative to the use-case anyways), but I think anybody can 
learn a lot by looking at both approaches. While the gross functionality 
is pretty similar, there are of course some fundamental differences in 
the approaches taken to implementation, configuration, and usage.

Along with the container services, Spring does include a lot of other 
things, such as integration into the container and interceptor framework 
of a JDBC abstraction layer, some Hibernate support code, transactional 
wrapping, etc. There is also a UI layer which I haven't used so far as I 
prefer Tapestry.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article on intergrating Tapestry with 
Spring. It does assume you are already familiar with both frameworks 
however. It's available at:
  http://www.springframework.org/docs/integration/tapestry.html

Regards,
Colin


Harish Krishnaswamy wrote:

> I put the Adder example together with a LoggingInterceptor in three 
> modules and its pretty slick. Although the free form schema gets my 
> head spinning ;). I think it'll take a little bit to get adjusted to 
> living without constraints! I like the fact that it can support both 
> IoC and SoC, nice! And the documentation is great.
>
> I have a few questions:
> 1. What is rationale behind the names <service...> and 
> <extension-point...>? That would probably clarify my confusion with 
> the names. It got me a little confused initially, 
> <service-extension-point...> and <config-extension-point...> is more 
> intuitive to me.
> 2. How to debug deferred services when dynamic proxies are used?
> 3. In the BuilderFactory which service extension point id gets stored 
> in the point-id-property? For example, if I use a LoggingInterceptor 
> like...
>  <extend-service service-id="hivemind.examples.Adder">
>    <interceptor service-id="hivemind.LoggingInterceptor" order="10"/>
>  </extend-service>
>
> Thanks,
> Harish
>
>
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