On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:16, Pete Carapetyan wrote:
> The reason Avalon is complex is that committers get a great deal of
> personal satisfaction from making it complex.
By complex you mean flexible and usable in multiple domains? :)
Think of it this way. Ant and Cocoon have very similar architectural demands
(almost identical). Both are "request-based" architectures that aquire
resources and services during a request, perform some work and may then
release resources (or may store them somewhere else).
Compare this to Tomcat/James or other similar servers. They have "active"
services that independently operate and in fact may host another
"request-based container" (like MailetEngine or ServletEngine).
If we only supported one style of development then someone is going to get
upset ;)
There is a bunch of commonality between all the containers though, and that is
what we are addressing now. It will be extracted so that most of the
containers are trivial to write and can share components.
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Cheers,
Peter Donald
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
-- Ramsey Clark
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