> From: Patrick Lightbody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 8:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Xdoclet-user] Generic "column name" support > > > It doesn't seem to me that it is anything more than adding some "if/else" > logic to the .j files and deciding on a location to place this global > name. > I'd be more than happy to send in some patches with my ideas for this. :)
The implementation should be straight forward (thanks to the template engine). The important thing is semantics. This is very debatable and remember it's easy to modify template files but expensive to change @tag semantics (specially from an end-user's perspective). Ara. > >From: "Ara Abrahamian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "'Patrick Lightbody'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: RE: [Xdoclet-user] Generic "column name" support > >Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:38:40 +0330 > > > >Go back to old ejbdoclet archives, we've already talked about it there > >:o) > >In fact I proposed what I called *unified persistence tags*. I'm too > >much busy these days to tackle it lonely. So you're welcome to join > >Xdoclet-devel list and continue this discussion there and actually > >implement it. It's tricky to find a good generic solution for it. > > > >PS: These kind of standard @tags should be even embraced by Sun and ejb > >vendors too, it'll let you define a set of standard @tags and viola it > >deploys on anything. And I'm not talking about embracing Xdoclet and its > >engine but just the @tags. > > > >Ara. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:xdoclet-user- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Patrick Lightbody > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 1:17 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [Xdoclet-user] Generic "column name" support > > > > > > A feature I'd like to see is for the vendor tasks to start supporting > >a > > > generic "column" tag. Right now, I need to do: > > > > > > @jboss:column-name name="id" > > > @orion:persistence persistence-name="id" > > > > > > To declare for orion and jboss that the column for that value be named > > > "id". > > > I think we can still keep support for this, but why add: > > > > > > @ejb:column-name name="id" > > > > > > Yes, I know technically there is no concept of a "column name" in the > > > standard ejb-jar.xml, so putting it in the ejb namespace might suck, > >but > > > basically, the idea is to get all the <vendor>.j files to agree on a > >way > > > to > > > specify these column names as possible. This would allow for my EJBs > >to > > > support app servers that I didn't even plan on. > > > > > > In fact, this idea could be extended further even, such as table-name, > >and > > > auto-create-table and auto-remove-table. I suppose this list would > >have to > > > be limited to a common subset the major of the vendor tasks support > > > though. > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > -Pat > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > >http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Xdoclet-user mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xdoclet-user > > > > > >_________________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Xdoclet-user mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xdoclet-user > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Xdoclet-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xdoclet-user
