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From: Gavin King <gavin@hibernate.org>
To: Java Community Process JSR #299 Expert List <JSR-299-EG@jcp.org>; Jim Knutson <knutson@us.ibm.com>; Michael Keith <michael.keith@oracle.com>; Matt Drees <matt.drees@gmail.com>; Scott Ferguson <ferg@caucho.com>; WebBeans <webbeans-dev@lists.jboss.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 9:17:57 AM
Subject: [webbeans-dev] Re: XML configuration format

I blogged it here:

http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/XMLConfigurationInWebBeans

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Gavin King <gavin@hibernate.org> wrote:
> I would like to open up a discussion about the XML format defined in chapter 10.
>
> Mike is concerned that the XML format is different to the style used
> in other Java EE specifications, where class/method names are
> generally specified as strings in the body of XML elements, and that
> the XML format may turn out to be confusing to users.
>
> On the other hand, the format currently defined by the specification
> is typesafe, allowing tooling to provide validation and
> auto-completion of all class/method names, and is also less verbose.
> It's also consistent with the approach used by existing solutions in
> the spec (Spring, Seam).
>
> I've recently discovered that it's possible to write a Java 6
> Processor that would generate the XML schema for a package containing
> web beans as part of the compilation process. (This is an awesome new
> feature of javac, that used to be provided by the APT plugin.)
>
> One possible path to take would be to use hyphenated names in the XML
> (i.e. <foo-bar> instead of <FooBar>) to make the XML more visually
> consistent with other EE descriptors.
>
> I would like to get everyone's thoughts on this issue:
>
> Do you like the existing format?
> Do you find it confusing? In what way?
> Have you used this approach in Spring or Seam? If so, how did it compare?
> How important is typesafety?
>
> --
> Gavin King
> gavin.king@gmail.com
> http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin
> http://hibernate.org
> http://seamframework.org
>



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http://hibernate.org
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