Discussion out side of JIRA is okay right?
Okay, but not persistent. Which can be a problem sometimes.
I'm frankly quite surprised at the seeming jump on the annotation
bandwagon. I *like* annotations and all, but I fail to see exactly
how
they improve things over simply adding a few abstract methods to
WikiPlugin such as:
Annotations can be processed externally.
Also, using abstract methods is a problem because *if* you add
anything in the future, all your plugin classes break horribly. So
you need to provide an abstract baseclass, which in turn makes it
impossible to choose your own parent class. So you couldn't make any
arbitrary component implement WikiPlugin.
I mean, if a plugin class has dependencies that cause class-loading to
fail, then annotations don't help you either right? That reason is
actually the *only* reason that I thought jspwiki_module.xml was maybe
okay, you could inspect it without loading the class (which might fail
because of dependencies).
Classloading might fail even if you *are* compatible due to missing
libraries. So it does not really help you out :-/
/Janne
