Peter Donald wrote:
"attributes" is already there in JC, remember the FYI I sent some days ago here. They are also talking to do xdox=xdoclet+qdox, and seeing what can be done with clazz+attributes.On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:from: Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Clazz is far from good for our purposes because it also tries to be a reflection based mechanism. We need to load things without classes being resolvable and so forth.[clazz] has made no coding decisions with regards to attributes (meta-data) yet. Our intention is to provide pluggable implementations, of which commons [attributes] would probably be one. This gives Avalon a chance to get together some requirements and influence/help out [clazz] development. There's an opportunity here.
I would highly recomend you don't try to merge in metadata to Clazz. It would be much better if you worked with the other committer (or the XDoclet team) as they have a lot more experience in working with these constructs. Clazz is more orientated towards a bean like system and I don't really understand how it differentiates its purpose from BeanUtils.
It would be far better to separate out metadata to another project (commons-attributes?). Then clazz could delegate to it.
Below is a mail sent to JC; IMHO we should take part in the process there.
Joe Walnes wrote:
> I would like to see it in commons too, but I don't want to shut out all
> the non jakarta developers who have put a lot of effort into it (and
> still are). In the mean time I'm happy to use qdox as an incubator
> ground. Aslak, I've added you as a developer to the project on sf.
>
> cheers
> -Joe
>
> At 20:14 22/11/2002 +0100, Aslak Helles�y wrote:
>
>> hi!
>>
>> as a result of the commons-attributes library discussion we've been
>> discussing a unified api/library to access source code data, and there
>> seems
>> to be consensus on trying to marry xjavadoc and qdox again. xdox.
>>
>> let's start xdox asap. how about going for xjavadoc's rich api (it's all
>> interfaces), do some modifications like getting rid of the XDoc interface
>> and rework it to use joe's fast parser from qdox? -and forget about
>> the ast,
>> we won't need code mutation i think.
>>
>> where would it belong? jacarta-commons? xdoclet? qdox? new project?
>> i'm open
>> for jakarta-commons, but i must be voted in first. if it takes too
>> much time
>> or nobody wants me in i'd like to start it over in the qdox space if joe
>> gives me access. i could also do it in xdoclet.
>>
>> my yahoo! id is aslak_hellesoy. if you give me yours we can discuss it
>> there
>> too.
>>
>> have a nice week-end!
>>
>> aslak
>
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