Stephan Coboos wrote:
Hello,
I had read about the apples block and I would like to use it in some
parts of my application. There is just one big question: I'd read that
apples is in alpha status, so will it be (really) supported in future
and when is the release planned? In 2.2?
Thank you.
Safe bet here and now is to choose FlowScript.
There is no release plan for apples whatsoever. Since the code just
works and no more commits have been hitting it since some months (not
counting syncing with other changes or bugfixes) you can safely just
use it. However I don't have the feeling there have been enough
group-discussions and user feedback to talk about a stable API, here.
(hence the alpha label)
I know it's a chicken and egg problem, but it will require actual users
and deeper discussions to actually get it somewhere.
So Where?
IMHO Apples' future (if any) should be closely related to the pursuit of
some best practices pattern in the separation between Java and
JavaScript code when using FlowScript. This opposed to it being
perceived sometimes as an alternative or even competition to FlowScript...
There have been some recent hints on people needing better guidance in
this role-disctinction between both Java and FlowScript. I think a lot
of practical reasons for using the _current_ Apples will vanish when
that is there.
I'm hoping that time is getting there: as more people are using
FlowScript I think were getting closer to the point where there is
enough critical mass of sample-code in which the patterns can be
discovered.
If those patterns can be meaningfully solidified in an API (which I
really believe), then that API should be 'Apples' IMHO. Still having
the possibility to call an 'Apple' (i.e. single-step controller-logic)
directly from the sitemap (without flowscript) would then be considered
an optimizing feature (and not the todays' perceived fundamtal clash of
visions, which it IMHO never was).
In the end, it would in fact finally make up for the seemingless
usage-limit-transitions that were originally envisioned here:
http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Wiki.jsp?page=GeneralizedFlow
(possibly avoiding the recurring flow vs. actions theme as well?)
And although everyone is invited to speak up, only 'time' will really tell.
-marc=
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