Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-02 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Ok, ok, you win :) LOL -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Thu, June 2, 2005 2:32 pm, Laurie Harper said: > Frank W. Zammetti wrote: >> On Thu, June 2, 2005 1:29 am, Laurie Harper said: >>>I have to admit that refactoring on bu

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-02 Thread Dave Newton
Laurie Harper wrote: Frank W. Zammetti wrote: On Thu, June 2, 2005 1:29 am, Laurie Harper said: I have to admit that refactoring on butcher paper was a bitch though! I would think refactoring on on butcher paper would be very easy... just need a good pair of scissors and some Scotch tape.

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-02 Thread Laurie Harper
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: On Thu, June 2, 2005 1:29 am, Laurie Harper said: I have to admit that refactoring on butcher paper was a bitch though! I would think refactoring on on butcher paper would be very easy... just need a good pair of scissors and some Scotch tape. Yeah, but I was only all

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-02 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Thu, June 2, 2005 2:23 am, Dakota Jack said: > My high school had mostly reformed teachers. One once said, with > pride, that there had been no one in the trunk of his car for quite a > while. Funny... the teachers in my school would say that with a "damn, I miss the good'ole days" look on the

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-02 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Thu, June 2, 2005 1:29 am, Laurie Harper said: > I have to admit that refactoring on butcher paper was a bitch though! I would think refactoring on on butcher paper would be very easy... just need a good pair of scissors and some Scotch tape. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Ar

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-02 Thread Tom Dimock
On Jun 2, 2005, at 1:46 AM, Laurie Harper wrote: I'm guessing (from other posts in this thread) you're a little older than I am. That would make your high school pretty impressively forard-looking...! I attended the first computer class given at my high school in 1965. It was kind of a

Re: [W3OT][OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-02 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Go for it! You will have to pay me at 15% royalty for each page view of course. (geez, do I *ever* stop joking?!?) But yeah, feel free. Of course, I should probably post it on *my* blog, but that thing is neglected worse than the US.'s relationship with France (sorry, couldn't think of anything

Re: [W3OT][OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-02 Thread Simon Chappell
Frank this needs to be preserved for posterity. Would you mind if I post it to my blog? On 6/1/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, so *this* is what it's like being the parent of Rosemary's baby! > > I wonder if there has ever been a more OT thread? > > Allow me to summarize

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dakota Jack
My high school had mostly reformed teachers. One once said, with pride, that there had been no one in the trunk of his car for quite a while. On 6/1/05, Laurie Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (yes, my school actually had Fortran, COBOL and Pascal classes!) > > Your *high school* had multi

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Laurie Harper
> (yes, my school actually had Fortran, COBOL and Pascal classes!) Your *high school* had multiple courses on different programming languages? My high school ('secondary school' actually, I'm originally from England) had exactly one 'O'-level computer course and one 'A'-level course. There mig

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Laurie Harper
Simon Chappell wrote: Back when I was a young programmer we used to have to think. THINK! Oh the humanity. No patterns for us. Just endless cups of tea, a pad of paper (or the back of long listings on greenbar) and your flowchart Too funny; I remember when my 'IDE' was a sheaf of butcher's pape

Re: [W3OT][OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Larry Meadors
Thanks Frank, you made my entire evening brighter. :-) Larry On 6/1/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, so *this* is what it's like being the parent of Rosemary's baby! > > I wonder if there has ever been a more OT thread?

Re: AW: AW: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dave Newton
Leon Rosenberg wrote: I think Java is acceptable for Pretty Large Projects, with Large Numbers of developers, especially if they're Geographically Distant. I'm struggling to come up with a 10x20 program that would benefit from being written in Java that wouldn't suck, and I _like_ many pa

Re: AW: AW: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dave Newton
Leon Rosenberg wrote: I'm struggling to come up with a 10x20 program that would benefit from being written in Java that wouldn't suck, and I _like_ many parts of OO! http://vip8prod.messe-berlin.de/messe/execute/enShow?unit=Hall+5.1&prj= That's pretty neat; I like it. I'm skeptical it

Re: [W3OT][OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dave Newton
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: Wow, so *this* is what it's like being the parent of Rosemary's baby! I wonder if there has ever been a more OT thread? Allow me to summarize all the salient points, and perhaps this thread can die peacefully... *rotfl* I think that sums it up pretty neatly, and be

Re: [W3OT][OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 6/1/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, so *this* is what it's like being the parent of Rosemary's baby! > > I wonder if there has ever been a more OT thread? > > Allow me to summarize all the salient points, and perhaps this thread > can die peacefully... Not that fast ;)

Re: [W3OT][OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Adam Hardy
Thanks for reviewing that thread, Frank. I really didn't want to read all those posts. :) On 01/06/05 23:53 Frank W. Zammetti wrote: Wow, so *this* is what it's like being the parent of Rosemary's baby! I wonder if there has ever been a more OT thread? Allow me to summarize all the salient

Re: [W3OT][OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dakota Jack
Did anyone else notice that when Rosemary's baby was born a group of Japanese tourists went through the apartment where the Little Devil was laying and took photos? I almost fell out of my seat laughing at that one. On 6/1/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, so *this* is what

Re: [W3OT][OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Wow, so *this* is what it's like being the parent of Rosemary's baby! I wonder if there has ever been a more OT thread? Allow me to summarize all the salient points, and perhaps this thread can die peacefully... (1) Patterns are good, but don't cram'em in everywhere you have any problem to s

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Shey Rab Pawo
On 6/1/05, Pilgrim, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Dakota Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ==== > > > > "Strategy (315) Define a family of algorithms encapsulate each > > one, and make them > > interchangeable. Strategy lets the algo

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dakota Jack
Fortran | | | Pascal Algol | |

Re: [W3OT][OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dakota Jack
Rahul, that is the main administration building. Memories are made of this. On 6/1/05, Rahul Akolkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allow me to define a new marker (Way, ) times 3 OT. I have left OT in > for existing filters. > > -Rahul > > P.S.- > 1) I suspect this is how DJ went to programming

AW: AW: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Leon Rosenberg
I think Java is acceptable for Pretty Large Projects, with > Large Numbers > of developers, especially if they're Geographically Distant. I'm > struggling to come up with a 10x20 program that would benefit > from being > written in Java that wouldn't suck, and I _like_ many parts of OO! http:

AW: AW: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Leon Rosenberg
I think Java is acceptable for Pretty Large Projects, with > Large Numbers > of developers, especially if they're Geographically Distant. I'm > struggling to come up with a 10x20 program that would benefit > from being > written in Java that wouldn't suck, and I _like_ many parts of OO! http:

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
At least you had FEET! :) Leon Rosenberg wrote: At least you had newspapers!!! -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Scott Piker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Juni 2005 22:59 An: Struts Users Mailing List; Dakota Jack Betreff: RE: [OT] Business Layer Ideas We had to

Re: AW: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dave Newton
Leon Rosenberg wrote: As I wrote in the answer to dave: c is not c++. The main problem of c++ was actually, that they kept all the c-shit (yes powerful, but absolutely unmaintenable stuff ) in the language. I don't know where you're getting that "unmaintainable" bit from. A printer company

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dave Newton
Leon Rosenberg wrote: Actually smalltalk was a very good candidate, and java sells some technologies as modern, which were developed in/for smalltalk decades ago... And Lisp, don't forget Lisp. Ok, let's say: java is the first component-oriented language accepted by masses (or powered by a

Re: [W3OT][OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Rahul Akolkar
Allow me to define a new marker (Way, ) times 3 OT. I have left OT in for existing filters. -Rahul P.S.- 1) I suspect this is how DJ went to programming school [ http://www.bedlam.syol.com/ascendin.jpg ]* 2) You can convince the peasant Leon, given gas prices [ http://www.answersingenesis.org/cr

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Leon Rosenberg
üngliche Nachricht- > Von: Dakota Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Juni 2005 23:43 > An: Struts Users Mailing List > Betreff: Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas > > On 6/1/05, Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Java is actually

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Leon Rosenberg
üngliche Nachricht- > Von: Dakota Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Juni 2005 23:43 > An: Struts Users Mailing List > Betreff: Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas > > On 6/1/05, Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Java is actually

AW: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Leon Rosenberg
> On 6/1/05, Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *snip* > > Would you be able to code them with c? Forget it. > > Actually, I suspect that alot of these have been coded with C/C++. As I wrote in the answer to dave: c is not c++. The main problem of c++ was actually, that they kept all the

AW: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Leon Rosenberg
> On 6/1/05, Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *snip* > > Would you be able to code them with c? Forget it. > > Actually, I suspect that alot of these have been coded with C/C++. As I wrote in the answer to dave: c is not c++. The main problem of c++ was actually, that they kept all the

Re: AW: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dave Newton
Leon Rosenberg wrote: * What's a "modern" language, anyway? What features does a "modern" language have? I don't think Java is as widely used as it is because it's interesting or powerful, it was just a better C++ with marketing. Java is actually the first component-oriented language.

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dakota Jack
On 6/1/05, Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Java is actually the first component-oriented language. SmallTalk? My "Smalltalk/V 32-Bit Object-Oriented Programming System" book circa 1994 has a Smalltalk link library (.sll) full of components called "components" which you could dynamical

AW: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Leon Rosenberg
> > >Modern OSes, office suites or business software. > >Modern guis, with integrated media support, integrated audio/video > >broad- and unicasts, animations, sounds, and so on... > > > >Would you be able to code them with c? Forget it. > > > > > Why wouldn't I? We used to code most anythi

AW: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Leon Rosenberg
> > >Modern OSes, office suites or business software. > >Modern guis, with integrated media support, integrated audio/video > >broad- and unicasts, animations, sounds, and so on... > > > >Would you be able to code them with c? Forget it. > > > > > Why wouldn't I? We used to code most anythi

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dave Newton
Leon Rosenberg wrote: Modern OSes, office suites or business software. Modern guis, with integrated media support, integrated audio/video broad- and unicasts, animations, sounds, and so on... Would you be able to code them with c? Forget it. Why wouldn't I? We used to code most anything of

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Simon Chappell
On 6/1/05, Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: *snip* > Would you be able to code them with c? Forget it. Actually, I suspect that alot of these have been coded with C/C++. > What we have had was mostly alpha-numeric based terminals (remember borlands > gdi?) with maybe 10-20 business funct

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Leon Rosenberg
At least you had newspapers!!! > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Scott Piker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Juni 2005 22:59 > An: Struts Users Mailing List; Dakota Jack > Betreff: RE: [OT] Business Layer Ideas > > We had to walk in the s

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Leon Rosenberg
At least you had newspapers!!! > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Scott Piker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Juni 2005 22:59 > An: Struts Users Mailing List; Dakota Jack > Betreff: RE: [OT] Business Layer Ideas > > We had to walk in the s

RE: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Scott Piker
bject: Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas When I was going to "programming school" we had to walk to school and back and it was uphill both ways. On 6/1/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, June 1, 2005 12:15 pm, Simon Chappell said: > > Back when I was

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dakota Jack
I had to use an abacus with only one bead per string for binarry. Flippity, flip, flip, flip. Gates were hell. I had to have an "assembly" of 12 abaci around my neck. On 6/1/05, Tom Dimock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 1, 2005, at 12:39 PM, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: > > > Timex Sinclai

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dakota Jack
Getting the patterns wrong is typical. Is everyone SURE (?) that Struts 1.3 is actually using the CoR pattern or is it just called that? On 6/1/05, Leon Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > One major problem lies with how programmers are educated > > today. A lot of schools teach a langua

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dakota Jack
When I was going to "programming school" we had to walk to school and back and it was uphill both ways. On 6/1/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, June 1, 2005 12:15 pm, Simon Chappell said: > > Back when I was a young programmer we used to have to think. THINK! > > Hey, I'

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Leon Rosenberg
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Dave Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Juni 2005 21:37 > An: Struts Users Mailing List > Betreff: Re: AW: [OT] Business Layer Ideas > > Leon Rosenberg wrote: > > >We make far more complicated

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Leon Rosenberg
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Dave Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Juni 2005 21:37 > An: Struts Users Mailing List > Betreff: Re: AW: [OT] Business Layer Ideas > > Leon Rosenberg wrote: > > >We make far more complicated

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Leon Rosenberg
AW = RE in german :-) It's standart by outlook... > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Juni 2005 21:55 > An: Martin Gainty > Cc: Struts Users Mailing List > Betreff: Re: [OT] Business Layer Idea

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Leon Rosenberg
AW = RE in german :-) It's standart by outlook... > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Juni 2005 21:55 > An: Martin Gainty > Cc: Struts Users Mailing List > Betreff: Re: [OT] Business Layer Idea

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Those who remember rolling your own customised solution know this is a > lost > artform > Martin- > - Original Message - > From: "Leon Rosenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" > Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 2:

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Wed, June 1, 2005 3:42 pm, Dave Newton said: > (Although I have to admit, when game programming or the Sega GameGear I > would have had to pull off my own hea if I hadn't had the ICE.) That's a good point... I do PocketPC game development, and I'd hate to think about doing it without a good deb

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Martin Gainty
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 2:44 PM Subject: AW: [OT] Business Layer Ideas One major problem lies with how programmers are educated today. A lot of schools teach a language or a design philosophy but ra

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dave Newton
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: On Wed, June 1, 2005 2:55 pm, Tom Dimock said: I still make very little use of debuggers to this day, and find the younger programmers completely mystified as to how I ever get code to work. I frequently get the same reaction... I rarely use a debugger either,

Re: AW: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dave Newton
Leon Rosenberg wrote: We make far more complicated programms in far less time and for lesser cost. "Complicated" is a pretty loaded term... I don't see much complication in the majority of web apps. Big, sure. Complicated? Sometimes. The most complicated stuff I've worked on lately is rules

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Wed, June 1, 2005 2:55 pm, Tom Dimock said: > I still make very little use of debuggers to this day, and > find the younger programmers completely mystified as to how I ever > get code to work. I frequently get the same reaction... I rarely use a debugger either, yet I seem to have very little

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Tom Dimock
On Jun 1, 2005, at 12:39 PM, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: Timex Sinclair 1000 by any chance? Agh, you youngsters... My first program ran on a Burroughs 220 that was a vacuum tube based computer! But seriously, I agree fully that having learned on machines that had very limited memory, and h

AW: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Leon Rosenberg
> > One major problem lies with how programmers are educated > today. A lot of schools teach a language or a design > philosophy but rarely are in-depth enough to actually breed > the abstract skills necessary for the programmer to become > useful. It's a shame, really. I went to college in >

AW: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Leon Rosenberg
> > One major problem lies with how programmers are educated > today. A lot of schools teach a language or a design > philosophy but rarely are in-depth enough to actually breed > the abstract skills necessary for the programmer to become > useful. It's a shame, really. I went to college in >

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dave Newton
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: And I didn't have the 16K expansion module because my dad tried to solder it on because we could never get a good contact No no, you wanted it a little loose, for paging :D I}hate}}}LISP. LISP... ugh. I can't stand any language that contains

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dave Newton
Simon Chappell wrote: Back when I was a young programmer we used to have to think. THINK! Ah, a man after my own heart. In those days, if we wanted the computer to do _anything_, we generally had to write it ourselves, and nobody had ever done it before, so we couldn't even cheat. And like

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Martin Gainty
Dave- could you give us an example of over-using a weak abstraction ? Martin- - Original Message - From: "Dave Newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 2:19 PM Subject: Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dave Newton
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: Related to this, patterns are a wonderful invention, but I see day in and day out people trying to find a pattern for every single situation. People seem to think that they have to solve every problem by finding a suitable pattern. The problem is, everyone seems to be

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread gdeschen
Mailing List" To "Simon Chappell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc "Struts Users Mailing List" Subject Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas On Wed, June 1, 2005 12:15 pm, Simon Chappell said: > Back when I was a young programmer we used to have to think. THINK! Hey, I'

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Wed, June 1, 2005 12:15 pm, Simon Chappell said: > Back when I was a young programmer we used to have to think. THINK! Hey, I'm the resident bemoaner of how rough we used to have it! How dare you take my job?!? :) LOL > Oh > the humanity. No patterns for us. Just endless cups of tea, a pad of

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread gdeschen
PROTECTED]> 01/06/2005 11:42 AM Please respond to "Struts Users Mailing List" To Struts Users Mailing List cc Subject Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 10:31 -0400, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: > ... > Simplicity is a beautiful thing. That is always my

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Simon Chappell
> Patterns came from the recognition of common idioms, practices in the > industry. Religously following and applying patterns could condemn > you not to discovering future oversights and other intuitions. Back when I was a young programmer we used to have to think. THINK! Oh the humanity. No patt

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Leon Rosenberg
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 10:31 -0400, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: > ... > Simplicity is a beautiful thing. That is always my underlying design goal > for two reasons... Now this is really a perfect statement on architectures! Thanx Frank Leon.

RE: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Pilgrim, Peter
> -Original Message- > From: Simon Chappell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 01 June 2005 16:29 > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas > > > Good stuff Frank. Your point is a good one and well made. > > I just spok

RE: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Pilgrim, Peter
> -Original Message- > From: Dakota Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==== > > "Strategy (315) Define a family of algorithms encapsulate each > one, and make them > interchangeable. Strategy lets the algorithm vary independently > from clients that use > it." > This is

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Simon Chappell
Good stuff Frank. Your point is a good one and well made. I just spoke at a Java User Group here in Wisconsin on a similar issue, about how most people don't need to improve their Java programming skills, rather they need to improve their programming skills! I think that pattern use falls in the

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Not a problem. Just didn't want anyone else to get the wrong impression. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Wed, June 1, 2005 10:35 am, Dakota Jack said: > Sorry, Frank. I did not mean to misrepresent you in any way but > me

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dakota Jack
Sorry, Frank. I did not mean to misrepresent you in any way but merely to use a jocular reference out of good nature. I know you are into OOP. On 6/1/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, June 1, 2005 9:47 am, Dakota Jack said: > > This is what our > > fellow traveler Frank

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
On Wed, June 1, 2005 9:47 am, Dakota Jack said: > This is what our > fellow traveler Frank Zammettie finds inherently suspicious about the > *OOP nuts*. Woah, leave me out of this. I've purposely stayed away from this thread all this time, now I have to get in... I don't want anyone thinking I'm

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Dakota Jack
Thanks, Peter, This reply is in three parts: Oops, Ugh and GoF. FIRST PART: Oops! I am afraid there is a fatal flaw in your reasoning. Your example of the Strategy Pattern is *not* the Strategy Pattern. It is merely two differing implmentations of an interface. The Strategy Pattern is a clien

RE: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-06-01 Thread Pilgrim, Peter
> -Original Message- > From: Dakota Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ====== > > Hi, Peter, > > I am not sure what you are saying here. I had trouble > following you. > > The Strategy Pattern is roughly the following: > > public class DefaultStrategyInterface implements StrategyIn

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-05-31 Thread Dakota Jack
Just one last little thing, Peter, so that there is no misunderstanding. It is absolutely critical in the Strategy Pattern that we deal with a Java Bean. A great proportion of the fruits of the Strategy Pattern rely on that so that if your "metamophasis" does not retain this feature, it is not a

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-05-31 Thread Dakota Jack
I meant "I find your note interesting" and not "I find your not interesting". On 5/31/05, Dakota Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Peter, > > I am not sure what you are saying here. I had trouble following you. > > The Strategy Pattern is roughly the following: > > public class DefaultStra

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-05-31 Thread Dakota Jack
Hi, Peter, I am not sure what you are saying here. I had trouble following you. The Strategy Pattern is roughly the following: public class DefaultStrategyInterface implements StrategyInterface { private Helper helper; public void setHelper(Helper helper) { this.helper = help

RE: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-05-31 Thread Pilgrim, Peter
> -Original Message- > From: Dakota Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==== > > > I should have added that Rod (Johnson) in the book cited pointedly > advocates extensive use of the Strategy Pattern, see pp. 421 ff. The > use of CoR in Struts 1.3 for the extensible RequestProcessor is no

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-05-29 Thread Ted Husted
On 5/27/05, Duong BaTien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We use Chain of Responsibility (CoR) implemented by commons-chain and > its Agility to construct a Request/Response framework to connect a > request to its designated service, whether the designated service is in > a web-application service cont

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-05-27 Thread Dakota Jack
http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0764558315,descCd-download_code.html On 5/27/05, David Whipple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is an off topic post, but there seem to be a lot of people with good > opinions here. > > I am trying to provide a framework (based on Stuts and Spring

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-05-27 Thread Dakota Jack
One last note, on a somewhat experimental basis, I have been building an application, which for the lack of a better idea I call "StrutsState", for state management issues in or relating to the business layer which is stored in the servlet context (application) layer. This application interfaces w

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-05-27 Thread Dakota Jack
I should have added that Rod (Johnson) in the book cited pointedly advocates extensive use of the Strategy Pattern, see pp. 421 ff. The use of CoR in Struts 1.3 for the extensible RequestProcessor is not a feature but is a way of solving the problem created by the original use of the Template Meth

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-05-27 Thread Dakota Jack
A really wonderful book is J2EE Development without EJB by Rod Johnson, the original architect for Spring.On the whole, however, outside the issues associated with EJBs, there is a dirth of buisness layers patterns, so far as I know. I think some thought about developing a separate framework f

Re: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-05-27 Thread Duong BaTien
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 16:00 -0400, David Whipple wrote: > This is an off topic post, but there seem to be a lot of people with good > opinions here. > > I am trying to provide a framework (based on Stuts and Spring) for our > company > to use. I'd like to make a reinforcement of the business laye

RE: [OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-05-27 Thread Barnett, Brian W.
- From: David Whipple [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 2:00 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: [OT] Business Layer Ideas This is an off topic post, but there seem to be a lot of people with good opinions here. I am trying to provide a framework (based on Stuts and

[OT] Business Layer Ideas

2005-05-27 Thread David Whipple
This is an off topic post, but there seem to be a lot of people with good opinions here. I am trying to provide a framework (based on Stuts and Spring) for our company to use. I'd like to make a reinforcement of the business layer in applications. We do not use EJBs, so a lot of the patterns tha