Hi!
marc fleury wrote:
> |> it, it is meant as a externalizable object.
> |
> |No it is not. Why do you want to externalize the metadata? When is that
> |useful?
>
> ...? all XML files for metadata are externalizations of it.
XML << metadata. XML is one source of info. Not sole source of info.
Besides, the fact that EJX will use the metadata structure to do XML
editing is merely a practical detail.
> |The one inch you have to move sooner or later is to remove the thought
> |that the metadata structure needs to be externalizable. It does not (we
> |never do that anyway) so there's absolutely no problem with adding
> |runtime data such as classloaders to it.
>
> Yes but it's silly rickard :)).
>
> 2 points:
>
> 1- the name SYstem when you mean application is misleading and we should
> fight over it since we agree on what it does.
Ok. Done. We say "Application" then.
> 2- Putting the CL in metadata is irrelevant (we are not further) you mix XML
> externalizable information and runtime information for no gain...
There is gain: metadata about the application is put in one place
instead of all over the place (as you say).
/Rickard
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