From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > One of the aims of [clazz] is a unified API to different metadata/attribute mechanisms.
Maybe its time to update the PROSOAL.html which only really talks about being a new introspection & reflection mechanism. It doesn't seem to mention metadata or doclet tags etc. > The mechanism is to be pluggable, so one solution is to use [attributes] as a > pluggable implementation. > But it might be better to just integrate it (otherwise you end up with two pluggable levels which adds to confusion). Though they still appear quite different things. clazz looks to be doing runtime introspection & reflection. attributes is providing runtime access to doclet tags in the source code. Hopefully we can all share the same pluggability mechanism, as with commons-logging and use commons-discovery. > [clazz] aims to pull together DynaBeans, MetaData/Attributes and Introspection into one uniform API - Class manipulation. That sounds like a different scope to me; a higher level API. It could be that a pluggable implementation for clazz could use commons-attributes to access doclet tags. commons-attributes is really just trying to be kinda like C# attributes. Use whatever API you wish on top, reflection, introspection, DynaBeans, clazz, Joda etc. The API for commons-attributes should only be 2 or 3 classes. Its really very simple... http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/attributes/apidocs/index.html Already clazz looks much bigger than this. This isn't a problem, it just seems to illustrate to me that these projects seem to be of differing scopes. Its still early days and this is the sandbox afterall but I don't yet think its wise to merge these 2 projects. James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
