Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
Pier made me realize that there are 3 different issues on the table regarding real blocks:
1) classloading isolation 2) pojoification 3) service isolation
and, interestingly enough, they are orthogonal.
Tani was born to prototype 1. Butterfly was born to prototype 2.
But what I really care is 3!!! and Pier made me realize that you don't need to have neither 1 nor 2 to achieve 3!!!
The key is *very* subdle and, in fact, was hard for me to realize before.
Let me show you with an example:
<map:transformer name="blah" class="org.apache.blah.Blah"/>
...
<map:transform type="blah" src="blah.src"/>
This design is 5 years old and does *THIS* really mean? it means that the sitemap will lookup a "component" identified by a "class" cast it to the functional group (in this case, a transformer), reference it with its local name and used with further parameters (the src="").
Now, look at this
<map:transform name="blah/*" uri="http://apache.org/blah/Blah"/> <map:param name="src" value="{1}.src"/> </map:transform>
Can you elaborate on this syntax? This reminds me of the pipeline services we discussed about 2 years ago [1] (wow, already? Time goes fast!), but I don't understand the pattern in the transformer name (blah/*).
Sylvain
[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=103787313407324&w=2
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