Well, that's the thing. That's up to the "decorator" to decide how it gets the metadata information. Jakarta Commons Attributes does a pre-compilation step to set up the .class files so that their attributes can be read from them (from what I can glean from the docs).
-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Dudziak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:57 PM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: Re: Commons Metadata? On 3/7/06, James Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe I brought this up before, but I really think there's a need for > this. We need a metadata framework which abstracts away the details of > exactly how the metadata is found/provided. For example, some applications > use only JDK5 annotations to add metadata to their classes. Others might > use Jakarta Commons Attributes. Others might want to use XML files (if they > don't want to have to touch the source). So, what we could provide is a > MetadataFactory (or whatever you want to call it) which can have "metadata > decorators" added to it. The decorators are added to a pipeline and are > given a chance to append metadata information to the metadata object. We > created something like this for the Trails (www.trailsframework.org) project > so that we could use "off-the-shelf" domain models (how many times have you > seen those at Best Buy?) within the framework by providing metadata via XML > files as opposed to using JDK5 annotations. We could start this off in the > sandbox, of course. Anyone interested in helping out? I could start off > developing the core classes (the metatdata "holder" classes). +1 That sounds useful, especially if it also can be used at compile time, and if it can work with XDoclet-style Javadoc tags (e.g. using qdox or similar). cheers, Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
