We need some place to put utility classes that are shared across the other modules, such as Strings, Base64, etc. For now, I've added a common module which is currently very minimal (which we can add to as required), however I'm not sure if this is the way we ultimately want to go. I can't currently think of any alternative though - does anyone else have an opinion on this? If we go down this route, then we will probably be able to do away with the root /common directory and just have modules/common instead. Actually the more I think about it, since we are restructuring everything into modules anyway it doesn't make much sense to have a root common directory at all. _______________________________________________ seam-dev mailing list seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev

These two were just examples, in reality there's a lot more than that. I do like the idea though of making the modules as independent as possible, so for now I'll just copy any utility classes that are required into the module itself.

On 22 Apr 2009, at 20:56, Dan Allen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Shane Bryzak > <shane.bryzak(a)jboss.com&gt; wrote: > These two were just examples, in reality there's a lot more than > that. I do like the idea though of making the modules as independent > as possible, so for now I'll just copy any utility classes that are > required into the module itself. > > If it's a whole file (meaning not just a copied method), it should be > easy enough to reference the source and then we can be sure they are > kept in sync. Obviously, that doesn't scale infinitely, but I believe > Pete is saying that we want to see how it goes before deciding to > replant ;) Right, no point in copying methods you won't use into a module, just because they exist. This is a really a 50:50 situation - both copying and dependencies have bad points... > > > -Dan > > -- > Dan Allen > Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action > > http://mojavelinux.com > http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction > http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Dan > > NOTE: While I make a strong effort to keep up with my email on a daily > basis, personal or other work matters can sometimes keep me away > from my email. If you contact me, but don't hear back for more than a > week, > it is very likely that I am excessively backlogged or the message was > caught in the spam filters. Please don't hesitate to resend a > message if > you feel that it did not reach my attention. -- Pete Muir http://www.seamframework.org http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Pete