There was a general vote on abandoning support for JDK < 1.5 when the ideas for T5 were originally floated.. but I'm not sure that ditching the xml was included in that discussion.
I'm ok with losing the xml because I have already put in a suggestion not to lose the xml! :-) I was thinking we "lose the xml" in it's current form as an alternative to the annotations you can use today. Keep the bit's of the xml that allow one to not have to use a whole lot of @This and @That in the templates. So, in my mind I see the <component> tags being the only thing that remains in the xml and the whole file be completely optional. Further, I suggested that xml files, if kept, would play a much less prominent role. A role more akin to the .properties files for internationalization. Ie. Foo.class (w/annotations) + Foo.html is the minimum needed to build a page and if you want to "decruftify" the template, simply drop Foo.page in the same loc as the template and put <component> tags in it. Does this make sense? Geoff On 4/10/06, Bryan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Same feelings here. I *like* the xml binding files and I'm not wild > about mixing too many presentation details in with my java code. > (Although I suspect there would be some benefits like compiler type > checking.) > > > Mike Snare wrote: > > >I hope not. That would be horrible. There's a good segment of us > >still using java 1.4 who would be significantly annoyed at that, and > >for good reason. > > > >I know that the tap developers don't tend to concern themselves with > >backward compatibility, but it seems you should try to *build* a user > >base -- not replace it wholesale. > > > >I really hope this statement is wrong. > > > >-Mike > > > >On 4/10/06, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I just read on > >>http://www.virtuas.com/files/JavaWebFrameworkSweetSpots.pdf that T5 will > >>not have any XML configuration option any more, only annotations. > >>Is this true? > >> > >>MARK > >> > >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -- The Spindle guy. http://spindle.sf.net Blog: http://jroller.com/page/glongman Other interests: http://www.squidoo.com/spaceelevator/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
