Re: [Avalon4:Fortress] Changes to RoleManager

In Fortress? I think it was me and I asked this list if there was any problems 
but no one spoke up.

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 05:26, Berin Loritsch wrote:
> Somebody made some *major* changes to the RoleManager interface,
> and I do not recall any conversations/explanations regarding it.
>
> The problem is that I *specifically* designed the RoleManager
> to support both forwards and backwards interpretation of a
> component's entry in the configuration.  My intent was that in
> the future, the configuration file would be "self-healing".
> If there was an entry in the configuration file that was with
> the old "<component/>" format and there was an entry for it
> in the RoleManager, then the Container would be able to write
> the configuration file back with the human readable form of
> the name.
>
> The new implementations and interface does not allow for this
> type of action, and in fact it prevents it from ever happening
> in the future.  Also, the replacement did not meet the Java
> API documentation standards as the original version did.
>
> I am going to revert the changes *back* to the way they were.
> If there are any serious objections (which I doubt), please
> voice them now.

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Cheers,

Peter Donald
 "Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original 
dimensions." -Oliver Wendell Holmes