On Wednesday, May 15, 2002, at 09:52 AM, Ceki Gulcu wrote: <snip>
> I have been studying the digester code quite > carefully. My conclusion is that as long we do not try > to be fancy and if our clone will be for log4j > "internal" use only, then we can make many > simplifications. It will be an interesting excercise > but without glory whatsoever. there's one thing that i don't quite see... if you want to use digester to allow the configuration to be extended at run time, by removing rules from the private version you're also be preventing people from using them for their extended configurations. judging from the questions i've fielded on the list, the rules which use introspection are amongst the most popular with users so removing them could significantly reduce the utility of this feature. of course, a possible solution would be to have two jars. the first would be a stripped down digester version containing just the digester engine and the rules you need for standard log4j configuration. the second would contain extra rules for use by configuration extensions. - robert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
