I like it too! I used Scannotation in my library that I wrote just recently, but I would like to see something here in Commons that handles classpath scanning. I think it should be its own component in the sandbox.
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Simone Tripodi <simonetrip...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all guys, > before start working on Digester3 I experimented on GitHub, taking > inspiration from Google Guice APIs, embedded EDSLs in configuration > classess to solve 2 different kind of problems: > > * ClassPath scanning[1]: declare with fluent APIs a class path > scanner, filering classes users are interested in via fluent logic > language, and declaring actions have to be performed, once interested > classes have found. We already discussed about that idea time ago, but > it has been improved; > > * Class scanning[2]: Java users often create framework/libraries > based on Java5 MetaData Annotations interpreted at runtime, the > pattern they usually have to apply is: given a class, visiting all the > class inheritance hierarchy, and getting fields/constructors/methods > for each class; once found an (AnnotatedElement, Annotation) pair, > they have to perform an action. > So, the implemented classes aim to reduce the boilerplate and > redundant code simply by declaring actions that have to be performed > once the pairs (AnnotatedElement, Annotation) are found. > > My proposals are: > > * contributing that codebase, even separately, to existing commons > components, but which ones is not yet clear; > > or > > * donating the code as a separate component directly to Sandbox, > finalizing it then moving eventually to Proper once ready. > > WDYT? Please let me know, have a nice day!!! > Simo > > [1] http://s.apache.org/Ecu > [2] http://s.apache.org/cEf > > http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ > http://www.99soft.org/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
