Leo Simons wrote:
>>Leo Simons wrote:
>>
>>>all,
>>>
>>>tweety is ready to go online. Dist are at
>>>
>>>http://cvs.apache.org/~leosimons/excalibur/tweety/
>>
>>cool :-)
>>
>>Leo, I still think that having made the main class a Component itself
>>with the lifecycle methods is confusing for early users, as well as the
>>fact that main() makes it call them on itself :-S
>
>
> hmm. having main() instantiate a copy of itself is, I think, quite
> common behaviour.
Which I don't like much.
> The alternative is to have another class, called Main,
> that instantiates Tweety. Wonder what is clearer.
IMO the second.
>>I would just revert to the old behaviour which is more simple, and
>>thought you kinda agreed on this...
>>
>>What do you think?
>
> Like I said earlier (I think), not making Tweety a component would be an
> example of bad design. If you just use tweety, you just type 'ant run'
> and never deal with anything of its internals, so the *exposed*
> behaviour is exactly the same. If you want to look at the source to
> Tweety to learn what it does, I think it is very important that the
> source is well-written according to our own standards.
Less is more.
If we want to explain how Container-Component works, we should make a
Container and Components, not A Container that is a Component and a
Component.
Making everything a Component has lead to the misuse we have in Cocoon,
and this only encourages it.
> And the less pronounced motive is that I'm sure people will be misusing
> Tweety, for example putting it inside phoenix or somethin'. While I
> 'officially' disprove, I can see why =)
Hey, this is why I *don't* want Tweety itself to be a Component.
If it is, as now, users *will* ignore main and use it as a Component.
Sorry, but I don't understand Leo, it seems confusing to me what you say.
I want Tweety *not* to have lifecycle methods.
Lifecycle methods help in IoC, but if it calls them on himself it's a
very bad programming example.
There is no inversion, no clear Container-Component separation.
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