I had a discussion on #java with Epesh, and he expressed the sentiment that WW2 might be turning into a too complex system which will alienate new users and be "popular with the gearheads and such when it leaves nerd-domain". After reading the responses to the "Simplicity in WW2" email I must agree that it looks like this.

Now, to make me sound less like a whiner and more like someone with good ideas, here is a practical proposal:

The way you have to declare each action in a rather complex XML config file before even rudimentary testing increases the learning-curve needlessly. I propose a few simple features that will help the average users:

Actions can be run with the fully qualified class name.
Actions map by default to
1. a view document with the name of the action.
2. if 1 fails, a debug document that displays a list of the exposed properties and their current value.


This will cut the amount of explaining needed for a hello world type app down by an entire step. Anyone else got ideas like this that will cut down on the learning curve for newbies?

Anders Hovmöller



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