On 2008-11-14, Nicolas Lalevée <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I am not sure of how are used the "Resource" in the Ant code, but it
> makes me think of the Eclipse adapters (probably a design pattern ?):
> http://www.jeffreyricker.com/papers/Eclipse-Adapters.pdf

Sounds reasonable.

> Though it changes the tests of the appendability, the touchability,
> etc... of a Resource in the ant code, the "instanceof+cast" would be
> replaced by some "getAdapter". This solution is not very self-
> contained...

Yes.  I may stick a single subclass for FileProvider resources and
modify all occurances of Appendable and Touchable to use the adapter
method.


> But I see another solution, quite different. Probably most of the work
> should be done in the Resource class:

I thought about that, but Resource is already doing way too much IMHO.

Stefan

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