if there is something I hate in programming is the god class [1].
OGNL seems to embrace god object's cause pretty well.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
find -size +30k -name "*.java"| xargs -i sh -c "wc -l {}" | sort -n
771 ./src/main/java/org/apache/commons/ognl/Ognl.java
1139 ./src/main/java/org/apache/commons/ognl/OgnlOps.java
1858 ./src/main/java/org/apache/commons/ognl/OgnlParserTokenManager.java
3038 ./src/main/java/org/apache/commons/ognl/OgnlRuntime.java
4845 ./src/main/java/org/apache/commons/ognl/OgnlParser.java
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5000 lines of code... we should consider to rename to Bible.java
Jokes apart, it's very difficult to handle a class like this, if you
change something it's highly probable to broke the whole logic. I
think that everybody is afraid of manage a such big class.
We could maintain the API backward compatibility even trying to
improve this aspect.
What do you think?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_object
--
Maurizio Cucchiara
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
