Ian Clarke wrote: >>> Umm, they have callbacks... >> >> So you're basically reinventing JavaBeans? > > We haven't reinvented anything, callbacks are a well known design > pattern that also happen to be used by JavaBeans. JavaBeans would not > be well suited to solving the problem we are discussing here.
You're inventing a whole forest of classes, which are basically structs in a method shell, plus callbacks. Maybe this is one of those "each generation believes they invented sex" things, but I smell JavaBeans. > What isn't in question is that your proposal that we use java.util.Map > would not provide the functionality we need. And exactly what functionality do you need? Patrick
