On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Peter Ledbrook <[email protected]>wrote:
> > I like it! Does anyone have any thoughts about using (or not using) > Groovy? > > That depends. Do you have a link to a previous discussion about this? > Or the thread title, so I can search for it? I'm just wondering what > type of things the configuration API is expected to do. I'm still > unsure whether it has anything to do with wiring different beans > together, or whether it's simply configuration of already wired beans. > Or something else entirely. > > Thanks, > > Peter > I did not fully get what configuration we are talking about but that idea of depending on any third party library for configuration did not appeal to me. One of things I like about Shiro is its simplicity. As long as you know java , you can understand and use shiro in several places. This is a competetive advantage for shiro because most security frameworks/products are quite hard to use. If I need to know spring or any other library to use shiro, it will reduce the appeal of shiro for those not familiar with that library. In reality Shiro could and should support several configuration formats. So users may choose which format they want. But the lowest common denominators , such as simple text based configuration should be always be supported. Manoj Khangaonkar
