Stephen McConnell wrote:
>
>
> Berin Loritsch wrote:
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>>> From: Marcus Crafter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>> Berin - is this the direction we should be heading with Fortress
>>> (ie. automatic dependency resolution, etc).
>>>
>>> I've got the code together to be able to specify a handlers
>>> initialization policy via an 'activation' attribute, similar to
>>> what Steven did with Merlin. Should I go ahead and commit this ?
>>> or should we discuss it further ?
>>
>> I do want to go in one direction for specifying component dependencies
>> and meta-info. Truth be told, the RoleManager's chief role is to enable
>> the specification of meta info. The Fortress design allows us to
>> reverse
>> engineer the configuration so that if the user specified the old style
>> <component/> entry, we could convert it to a more friendly name.
>>
>> That said, I do want Merlin and Fortress to converge on one way of
>> specifying components, and their initialization policy. That will take
>> away the 90% of the need to create our own containers. That way, the
>> main difference between Merlin and Fortress will be the Async/Sync
>> component management policies, and the support for lifecycle extension.
>>
>> BTW, What is your feeling on lifecycle extension? Is it something that
>> we can propose for ContainerKit
>
> I'll have to dig before given you an opinion.
Pleeeease put them in :-)
>> and make it easier for all containers
>> to support it? Stephen, what is your feeling on it?
>>
>
> I would like explore a Merlin/Fortress merger. Merlin content on the
> Kernel/Container/Meta-Data layers, Fortress content on the handlers,
> lifecycle extensions and probably more that I'm not up to speed with
> yet. There's stuff in-between that would need discussion simply to get
> a better picture of where the boundaries and relationships are.
>
> Thoughts ?
Yay!
It seems that Fortress and Merlin2 are complementary... if we put
Fortress as the major Merlin Container, it would be a killer!
It would basically mean that finally Avalon would become at least a
duopoly, ie "Merlin's Fortress" and "Phoenix".
What would happen then...
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