My main point, Craig, is that it seems a bummer that we continue to develop frameworks in Java which steer the developer further and further away from the benefits of compile-time checking, and more and more towards activities which take a String as a runtime parameter in order to describe the intended behavior. My opinion is that there's a messiness and error-proneness that it introduces, which wouldn't be there with old-fashioned, fully compliation-time checked code. But perhaps this isn't the place to discuss it, as everyone here has too much vested in what's been built.
Bryan
