Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
>
>
> Pete Carapetyan wrote:
>
>> Leo Simons wrote:
>>
>>>> Not fair to cite SoC or IoC or Separation of Interface and
>>>> Implementation. They still make sense, but only because the
>>>> objective is assumed as common sense.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> that's your stance on it.
>>>
>>>
>> Not much of a stance, as stance implies that I believe in what I am
>> saying. More like a tentative viewpoint looking for opposing
>> clarifications.
>>
>> I must an attempt to separate what from how. I get lost in the how,
>> fried my brain in a previous life. So now I have to be very careful
>> to separate what from how, otherwise I get stuck in how and lose
>> track of what. Happens to others also, I've noticed.
>>
>> Berin is right on. He keeps trying to bring it back to the use cases.
>> They all seem like re-use to me. But my handicap has already been
>> identified, maybe brighter folks can point out other objectives than
>> I am seeing.
>>
>> What are the objectives, if they are more than re-use? Can you
>> identify them?
>
>
> Avalon is an API that, correctly implemented and used, makes better,
> cleaner, easier and more manageable software.
>
> -Better: it enforces good programming practices: IOC, SOC, etc---
> -Cleaner: COP
> -Easier: intuitive and clean APIS
> -Manageable: Component-Container
>
> It has reference implementation of components that help implement it
> (Excalibur), and a reference implementation of a server (since we're
> at Apache, let's not forget it ;-)
>
> I started using Avalon API in an app of mine that din't use it at
> first, and in 2 days I found myself, without understanding really why,
> with a really cool system. The API really enforced good practices!
>
> The power of Avalon is in the API.
> That's why we fight (we are knights) over the API, rarely over the
> implementations.
>
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