Re: [WebMacro-user] Release Work

[Lane S. <la...@op...>]

Marc Palmer wrote:

>It's a nice idea, but I have precious little time at the moment. I think a
>concrete WAR file that you can point at a directory of templates and have
>it serve the pages is a -must- have for WM though.
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for the documentation improvements: the examples/ folder now contains a 
build.xml that contains a deployment task to a web container for the 
examples + a web.xml. no war file. I could of course create this too.

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>>Also, I see a limitation with XML property specification ala Spring. 
>>First, I do not like XML as a bean property spec. I would much rather 
>>use #bean to instantiate and set props . Second, it does not allow for 
>>the beans properties to persist in state and then evolve. Fine for the 
>>default settings of a bean.
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>I think you've got the wrong end of the stick here.
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>The Spring bean config stuff is geared at application component
>initialization (i.e. business logic objects, EJBs - yuck!, etc)
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>Its XML grammar is trivial, and you are not restricted to their XML - you
>can write any bean factory implementation that uses any file format you like.
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that's cool. I like this.

>i.e. you could write a WebMacroBeanFactory for spring that parses WM
>templates to initialize the bean context.
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>However Spring's XML config is very good because it can be validated using
>any standard XML validation tool (and as part of the build process) and
>99% of the world knows a lot more about XML than WebMacro.
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sad :(. but because the world uses a lot of crap like ASP and JSP does 
not mean that I am going too.


>Whatever, WebMacro configuration needs to be "bean scriptable". I am not
>suggesting any replacement of the existing properties config scheme for WM
>- but it -must- be possible for users to configurable WebMacro at runtime,
>and from any POJO configuration tool such as Spring, Pico etc.
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Agreed!

>Right now the WM config/context system is not really "POJO".
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I do not think it is far from that, really.

-Lane

>Cheers
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