Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 02:56, Timothy Bennett wrote: > Berin Loritsch wrote: > > Tone it down big guy. I am juggling three different thought processes > > currently, and I am not in a position to give a more clear answer just > > yet. Maybe later, but right now I am juggling too many things

cvs commit: avalon/merlin/composition/impl/src/test/org/apache/avalon/playground/basic BasicComponent.java BasicComponent.xconfig BasicComponent.xinfo BasicComponent.xprofile BasicContext.java BasicContextImp.java BasicService.java BasicService.xservice

2004-01-06 Thread mcconnell
mcconnell2004/01/06 15:22:29 Added: merlin/composition/impl/src/test/org/apache/avalon/composition/model/test Tag: Ver_3_4 PlaygroundTestCase.java merlin/composition/impl/src/test/org/apache/avalon/playground Tag: Ver_3_4

cvs commit: avalon/merlin/composition/impl/src/test/org/apache/avalon/playground/basic - New directory

2004-01-06 Thread mcconnell
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cvs commit: avalon/merlin/composition/impl/src/test/org/apache/avalon/playground - New directory

2004-01-06 Thread mcconnell
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Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Timothy Bennett
Berin Loritsch wrote: Tone it down big guy. I am juggling three different thought processes currently, and I am not in a position to give a more clear answer just yet. Maybe later, but right now I am juggling too many things and quite frankly the ones that pay me have higher priority. !!??!!?? W

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Loritsch wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: Berin Loritsch wrote: Tone it down big guy. I am juggling three different thought processes currently, and I am not in a position to give a more clear answer just yet. Maybe later, but right now I am juggling too many things and quite frankly the

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira (Engenharia - SPO)
Okay, enough. I don't want to get on a plane to see you guys and teach you good manners. ;-) Also I wasn't convinced yet of the irrefutable need to change meta package, but I agree with the serialization strategy is better. Although making Leo's work support the currently usage is much better -

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Berin Loritsch
Stephen McConnell wrote: Berin Loritsch wrote: Tone it down big guy. I am juggling three different thought processes currently, and I am not in a position to give a more clear answer just yet. Maybe later, but right now I am juggling too many things and quite frankly the ones that pay me have h

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Loritsch wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: Berin Loritsch wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: >> No. I didn't ask for the ramifications .. I just asked you >> what your underlying reasons were. Presumably you are trying >> to do *something* and its not easy t

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Berin Loritsch
Stephen McConnell wrote: Berin Loritsch wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: >> No. I didn't ask for the ramifications .. I just asked you >> what your underlying reasons were. Presumably you are trying >> to do *something* and its not easy to do. >> >> What is

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Loritsch wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: >> No. I didn't ask for the ramifications .. I just asked you >> what your underlying reasons were. Presumably you are trying >> to do *something* and its not easy to do. >> >> What is that *something*? What is

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Berin Loritsch
Stephen McConnell wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: >> No. I didn't ask for the ramifications .. I just asked you >> what your underlying reasons were. Presumably you are trying >> to do *something* and its not easy to do. >> >> What is that *something*? What is it that you are trying

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Loritsch wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: Can you point me to some concrete examples where third party classloaders cannot access resources in a jar file? It's not a problem I'm seeing. In fact I would be really surprised if this was a real problem as it would negate just about any rea

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Berin Loritsch
Stephen McConnell wrote: Can you point me to some concrete examples where third party classloaders cannot access resources in a jar file? It's not a problem I'm seeing. In fact I would be really surprised if this was a real problem as it would negate just about any real application out there

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Loritsch wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: Berin Loritsch wrote: In order to solve "model" issues much easier and much more flexibly, What "model" issues are your referring to? Sometimes new features need new meta info to help fine tune those features. For instance, dynamic generation o

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Berin Loritsch
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2004 00:15, Niclas Hedhman wrote: Sorry Berin, I think you missed the target - Why do it in the first place? Typo... Sorry Berin, I think you missed the target - Why do I need it in the first place? Sometimes new features need new meta info to hel

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Leo Simons
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Tuesday 06 January 2004 23:22, Berin Loritsch wrote: In order to solve "model" issues much easier and much more flexibly, I propose to use the work that Leo did a while back with the Attributes embedded in the class file itself. Without knowing too much (as usual) about

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 00:15, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > Sorry Berin, I think you missed the target - Why do it in the first place? Typo... Sorry Berin, I think you missed the target - Why do I need it in the first place? -

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Berin Loritsch
Stephen McConnell wrote: Berin Loritsch wrote: In order to solve "model" issues much easier and much more flexibly, What "model" issues are your referring to? Sometimes new features need new meta info to help fine tune those features. For instance, dynamic generation of intrumentation points, or

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 00:05, Berin Loritsch wrote: > Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > Open for arguments... I see a list of "why not, not do it" (I just love double negation), which doesn't imply "why to do it". Let's see in detail what we can dig out of these arguments; > I understand the conc

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Loritsch wrote: Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Tuesday 06 January 2004 23:22, Berin Loritsch wrote: In order to solve "model" issues much easier and much more flexibly, I propose to use the work that Leo did a while back with the Attributes embedded in the class file itself. Without knowing

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Loritsch wrote: Jonathan Hawkes wrote: I've heard Leo's work with Attributes mentioned a lot in this group. For those of us coming in late in the game, do you have an example/illustration? Thanks! Jonathan Hawkes The basic principle doesn't change. You still have to declare them via a j

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Berin Loritsch
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Tuesday 06 January 2004 23:22, Berin Loritsch wrote: In order to solve "model" issues much easier and much more flexibly, I propose to use the work that Leo did a while back with the Attributes embedded in the class file itself. Without knowing too much (as usual) abo

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Stephen McConnell
Berin Loritsch wrote: In order to solve "model" issues much easier and much more flexibly, What "model" issues are your referring to? Keep in mind that the Avalon Meta package is about meta-info associated with component types and service definitions. There are no issues with this that I am

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Tuesday 06 January 2004 23:22, Berin Loritsch wrote: > In order to solve "model" issues much easier and much more flexibly, I > propose to use the work that Leo did a while back with the Attributes > embedded in the class file itself. Without knowing too much (as usual) about the subject, I w

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Berin Loritsch
Jonathan Hawkes wrote: I've heard Leo's work with Attributes mentioned a lot in this group. For those of us coming in late in the game, do you have an example/illustration? Thanks! Jonathan Hawkes The basic principle doesn't change. You still have to declare them via a javadoc comment, but the s

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Jonathan Hawkes
Thanks! - Original Message - From: "Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira (Engenharia - SPO)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Avalon Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 9:40 AM Subject: RES: [RT] Changing Meta Package > -Mensagem original- > De: Hamilton Veris

RES: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira (Engenharia - SPO)
-Mensagem original- De: Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira (Engenharia - SPO) > Please see http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/avalon-sandbox/attributes/ and get redirect to http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-commons-sandbox/attributes/ :-) ---

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira (Engenharia - SPO)
Please see http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/avalon-sandbox/attributes/ regards, hammett -Mensagem original- De: Jonathan Hawkes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: terça-feira, 6 de janeiro de 2004 12:35 Para: Avalon Developers List Assunto: Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package I've hear

Re: [RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Jonathan Hawkes
I've heard Leo's work with Attributes mentioned a lot in this group. For those of us coming in late in the game, do you have an example/illustration? Thanks! Jonathan Hawkes - Original Message - From: "Berin Loritsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Avalon Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[RT] Changing Meta Package

2004-01-06 Thread Berin Loritsch
In order to solve "model" issues much easier and much more flexibly, I propose to use the work that Leo did a while back with the Attributes embedded in the class file itself. It is a much more flexible way of doing things which will not require future modifications to the meta model to take care

Re: Where do you want to go?

2004-01-06 Thread Berin Loritsch
Stephen McConnell wrote: To be honest, I am not in a situation where I need enterprise level architecture anymore. I just need something simple. The current Fortress does fit my needs, and I am almost scared to try Merlin. There are two important questions here: (a) why does Fortress not

[OT] logging.apache.org

2004-01-06 Thread Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira (Engenharia - SPO)
The logging project will host the log4net project soon. Now we don't have to be afraid of be the only one ASF project with CLI issues... no more! :-) hammett - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: Where do you want to go?

2004-01-06 Thread Stephen McConnell
Giacomo Pati wrote: Stephen, what should that tell me: You spread the refactoring not only to the core and sub-system but also onto meta, repo, util, etc? Avalon Meta was initially within the Merlin system (back in 2.1). It was moved out to a separate Avalon level package and in that process t

Re: Where do you want to go?

2004-01-06 Thread Giacomo Pati
Niclas Hedhman wrote: On Tuesday 06 January 2004 14:37, Giacomo Pati wrote: Stephen McConnell wrote: As far as commit messages are concerned, please take into consideration (a) commits on implementation improvements, (b) commits related to sub-system relocation (i.e. system moving out of merlin

cvs commit: avalon/repository/site/xdocs/about reference.xml

2004-01-06 Thread mcconnell
mcconnell2004/01/06 03:42:18 Modified:repository/site/xdocs/about reference.xml Log: Correct table defintion. Revision ChangesPath 1.5 +0 -1 avalon/repository/site/xdocs/about/reference.xml Index: reference.xml ===

Re: How do we get there? (was: Re:Where Where do you want to go?)

2004-01-06 Thread Leo Simons
Niclas Hedhman wrote: You start sounding like a demanding Corporate Manager :D No-one likes to be told they need discipline. "Accusing" me of "management" because of it...how dare you? :P May I suggest a slightly different 1,2,3; yes you may! Step 1. Write a test. Step 2. Refactor a "smell". Ste

Re: Where do you want to go?

2004-01-06 Thread Leo Simons
Steve wrote: > My guess is that your probably thinking about "how do I make Merlin > internals do what I want" - and yes - that could be scary. But the > solution here is rather simple - take a step back and separate out the > following: > > (a) bootstrapping, this is all 100% avalon-repository

Re: Where do you want to go?

2004-01-06 Thread Ulrich Mayring
I'd like to have a container that does everything that Phoenix does and additionally has good end user documentation. Merlin comes closest to that. Ulrich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-