Reinhard Pötz wrote:
From: Reinhard Pötz
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 9:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [RT] Generalizing the flow
From: Christopher Oliver
Sylvain Wallez wrote: <snip>
Names are one of the most important things in design, since
it's first
through the names that a user goes into a set of classes.
Bad names
imply wrong understanding. Abstractions named after a particular implementation make other implementations look clumsy, since they don't fit into the name, even if they fit into the real
underlying
concept.
Fine. Would you mind demonstrating at least one alternative
implementation of "FlowEngine" and "FlowController" so that the rest of us can make a technical assessement of how well it "fits" if you intend to make these name changes?
Even so, I really don't like your names. <map:call> made
perfect sense when calling a continuation or function (since they are actually callable). I don't quite get what "calling" a "state" means.
I would be interested in this too because I'm wondering what can you do
with a plain Java controller what Actions can't do for you? Or do you
_only_ want to make a shift away from actions?
I think we need some more time to investigate these issues. Is it a problem if we decide to change some class names and sitemap elements after we released a beta?
I'm asking because beta1 should be released in a week and I think it is too early to decide *NOW* if we should follow Sylvain's/Marc's proposal
or not.
What do you think?
it has never been the intention of the proposal to jeopardize any release planning
ideas and insights don't let themselves get planned so well, they just happen (and take some time to develop),
how we deal with these thoughts and changes in terms of planning on incorporating them is indeed a different (and important) concern
in the mean time I'll just be trying to provide all posible information and clarification to make it possible to make the decission
of course everyones effort in asking the questions is appreciated in this process
(meaning: I would hate us to totally go by at the proposal only on the grounds of release-planning)
regards, -marc=
Cheers, Reinhard
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