Hi Henning,

Any update about the code review for this proposal?

- Henry

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Henning Schmiedehausen <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> with the release of Guice 2.0 (and our adoption), the need for "soft
> bindings" of Interfaces that can be easily overridden has somewhat
> diminished. But our current usage of @ImplementedBy introduces some
> friction when you try to integrate Shindig into an environment where
> lots of the existing interfaces need to be overridden. Mostly because
> a missing explicit binding will not result in an instant startup error
> but in a default implementation being bound instead of the customized
> class.
>
> In my case, I hook CacheProvider into our internal caching
> infrastructure using a custom implementation. However, the code broken
> in one place for hard to track down reasons until I figured out that
> this specific piece was missing the custom Guice binding and fell back
> to LruCacheProvider which did not do what I expected it to do.
>
> In our custom Shindig tree, I now have a set of patches that remove
> all @ImplementedBy annotations and replaces them with explicit
> bindings in Guice modules. How controversial would be applying this
> patch? Apache JIRA seems to be down right now, so I can't file a JIRA
> right away.
>
> -h
>

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