Re: [OS-webwork] WebWork2, here I come!

[Hani Suleiman]

I agree completely. All this 'just define it/figure it out at runtime'  
stuff really bothers me. Interfaces might be very 'old school' now, but  
they are useful, just so you know at compile time what contracts your  
components/classes/whatever are adhering to. I still have yet to look  
at xwork (waiting for migration guides+tools and performance reports),  
but the concept of having all information in an xml file and an active  
effort to remove type safety/contracts from code feels very wrong. I  
understand the allure of 'but you can use ANYTHING as an action!', but  
I do feel that those things that are used as an action should  
anticipate somewhat that they are one and will be treated as one, in  
most cases.

On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 11:54 AM, Anthony Eden wrote:



Jason Carreira wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Eden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<snip>

On a side note, does anyone else notice that the use of dynamic  
proxies is leading to code which acts more like dynamic typed  
languages such as Python?

Sincerely,
Anthony Eden
No... Because they're strongly typed. But we're not using dynamic
proxies here...
How do you mean you're not using dynamic proxies?  What the heck is  
ActionProxy then?  The actual command method which is invoked can vary  
depending on the configuration.  Granted this is not dynamic typing as  
seen in Python and other scripting languages, but it still feels like  
we are moving in that direction, i.e. Java is attempting to become  
more of a dynamic language (where less and less is defined at  
compile-time). FWIW, my comment is also based on the increased  
interest in interaction between Java and scripting languages so  
perhaps I should have included a little bit more context for my  
comment.

Sincerely,
Anthony Eden


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