Kees Jongenburger wrote: > On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 10:04, Eduard Witteveen wrote: > >>On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 09:38, Gerard van Enk wrote: >> >>>Why would you wanna move code outside of the builders? Isn't the whole >>>MMBase idea you can have functionality *inside* the builders? >> > >>Well, maybe it is time to define what functionality should be where? >>My opinion is that buildersnodes are somekinda beans. This beans contain >>information and can do modifcations on that information. >>Also they can be serialized to the database(or somewhere else) >>An example could be a virtual field 'age' on a node that contains an >>birthdate. > > >>The problem with beans and image's is that they are now displaying >>themselve as an image and as an url(generating html code, dependend of >>the location where the request came from). > > > Actually the image servlet needs to know about icaches so even images is > not a good example of builder with functionality. so what is? > the email builder?
I think that's the main problem: Builders can be very intelligent, but there aren't many (good) examples. Gerard
