+10 for exploring, you just never know what handy feature turns up:) I
meant to say that to in my previous mail.
Martijn Dashorst wrote:
Having the ability to specify the mount with the page instead of a
central location may be interesting. How is this different from
specifying to what table an entity is retrieved from? I think having
all the things that relate to a specific page in one place is an
advantage.
I'm not sure what deserved this outburst, but I think *EXPLORING* the
possibility and the consequences of having a mount-annotation are
worth it. Just saying you don't like it without arguments or throwing
some unrelated arguments around just doesn't cut it. If you don't like
it, you don't have to use it.
So instead of the "I don't like ..." arguments, please answer the
question: What issues would we run into if we were going to implement
it? There are probably tons of issues associated with it, for instance
(which didn't take me long to come up with):
Pro's:
- a long list of mounts becomes unmanagable
- easy to add a mount: work on a page, slap on the annotation and you
have your mount done
- locality of the configuration
Con's
- distributed configuration, so hard to see the 'big picture' (though
a mounts page listing all mounts would help)
- scanning of classpath at startup (though spring, struts, etc are
doing that already)
- multiple mounts at same position harder to detect, though that is
already possible.
Open questions:
- annotated page impossible?
- specifying the URL encoding strategy
- multiple mounts for the same page
- package mounting?
- can we override the annotated mount?
- how do we work with pages contributed using jars, could we disable
the annotated mounts and provide our own?
Martijn
On Jan 10, 2008 2:28 PM, Eduardo Ito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I agree...
What is the *advantage* of putting the mount definition in an annotation?
Following the same pattern, we would create a bunch of annotations
like @PageSettings, @HomePage, etc... argh!
On 1/10/08, Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I suggest we take a look at annotations for:
* the mount with a page
A disadvantage to doing that imho is that you'll have those
definitions scattered throughout. Right now we steer people to do it
in one place.
Eelco
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