[seam-dev] To cascade or not...

[Dan Allen]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen <max.andersen at redhat.com
> wrote:

>  Convenient does not mean it should be default.
>
> Anyway, for GA we will keep the "old" default since it was discovered too
> late.
>
> Then when we do have the ui for controlling the default I would just have a
> few options but
> let none be the default since it is the less risky one and you can set the
> default option in persistence.xml
> instead of going set it on every single entity.
>

It's clearly a programming/architecture style since we all are pushing our
own viewpoints. Thus, I think you should have an option in the UI for the
user to enter whatever default he/she wants. Perhaps check boxes would be
nice.

I don't really like the idea of setting the defaults in the XML as it
changes the behavior of the application and makes it non-portable (or harder
to connect the dots for someone looking at the annotations).

So can we agree to disagree and make it a choice for the developer?

-Dan

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