[seam-dev] IRC meeting tomorrow

[Pete Muir]

On 14 Oct 2010, at 17:23, Ken Finnigan wrote:

> On 14/10/2010 14:46, Dan Allen wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Ken Finnigan <ken.finnigan at sorstech.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Have been able to find some time over the last week or so to work on getting the tests passing again.
>> 
>> Couple items on my todo:
>> - resolve jiras from alpha 1
>> - change setting of default locales and timezones to use Qualifiers and Injection, to support XML Virtual Producers or Producer within a Bean
>> - typesafe message definition and usage
>> 
>> I think this is the really crucial one since it's a major design change and it will drastically simplify the example snippets we are pushing out (making it really shine). 
>>  
>> - support for resources definitions in properties and database
>> 
>> 
>> -Dan
> I would agree.
> 
> I'd like to develop typesafe messages by examining what is the most appropriate way for an application developer to both define message keys and values, as well as how to use a message key to retrieve the value.
> 
> Any thoughts on how this should look would be greatly accepted.  I have some thoughts on this but welcome alternative views to assist in crystallising my own thoughts.

Take a look at Weld Extensions logging, it already provides a way to inject typesafe message bundles.

I actually think this is already done.

Got some dudes working on the tooling for this as well.