On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Jan-Kees van Andel <jankeesvanan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't think Scannotation itself is an issue, but it has a required > dependency on Javassist, which has an LGPL license. Isn't that a > problem?
hrm, I think not really, b/c it's not a direct dependency. > > Using Scannotation, however, would definitely ease development. +1 on what I read about it > > /Jan-Kees > > > 2009/1/10 Matthias Wessendorf <mat...@apache.org>: >> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <mat...@apache.org> >> wrote: >>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Cagatay Civici >>> <cagatay.civ...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I see scannoation in openwebbeans, anyone tried it? As far as I know it's a >>>> one man project and dont know if he still maintains it. >>> >>> ah, so perhaps guice over scannoation ? >> >> oh, I see it's (scannotation) from Bill Burke. >> and the license is fine (ASL 2) as well. >> >> -M >> >>> >>> -M >>> >>>> >>>> I think reflection&.class stuff is problematic if you dont limit the >>>> package >>>> name to be scanned. >>>> >>>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <mat...@apache.org> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>> It might be smart to put this Shale code in a separate project. For >>>>> >>> example >>>>> >>> in Commons, since there are several Apache projects that need to scan >>>>> >>> for >>>>> >>> annotations, like EJB3 and JPA projects. >>>>> >>>>> there is something on the new "open web beans" podling (in the incubator) >>>>> >>>>> or, take a look a google guice? I think the startup is pretty fast and >>>>> the dependency >>>>> shouldn't really be a show stopper. Guice is ASL2, btw. >>>>> >>>>> -M >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> Yeah, I thought the same too. >>>>> >> What would be great would be some sort of "annotation scanner" where >>>>> >> you can register a "scanning job" for system startup so that the >>>>> >> classpath >>>>> >> scanning has to take place only once and the scanning jobs get called >>>>> >> back >>>>> >> about the results. >>>>> >> >>>>> >> Sure, if a scanning job registers something like "**" all packages get >>>>> >> scanned and startup time is slow again, but this is on the >>>>> >> responsibility of >>>>> >> the developer then. >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> I can help to startup a commons sandbox project and to work out a >>>>> >> specification for the library, but my spare time for coding is very >>>>> >> low :-( >>>>> >> >>>>> >> Ciao, >>>>> >> Mario >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> > >>>>> > Mario, I've been looking at the Shale code that handles the annotation >>>>> > scanning, but I saw it uses Reflection and standard Java ClassLoaders >>>>> > for scanning the classpath for JSF artifacts. What's your experience >>>>> > with the performance of this? Does Shale heavily rely on specifying a >>>>> > base package to be efficient? >>>>> > >>>>> > /Jan-Kees >>>>> > >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Matthias Wessendorf >>>>> >>>>> blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ >>>>> sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf >>>>> twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Matthias Wessendorf >>> >>> blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ >>> sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf >>> twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Matthias Wessendorf >> >> blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ >> sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf >> twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf >> > -- Matthias Wessendorf blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf
