Re: Minimal set of component attributes?

Berin Loritsch wrote:
> Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> 
>> Berin Loritsch wrote:
>>
>>> I have some rudimentary support for using attributes to represent
>>> components and their roles.  The core mechanisms in Fortress have
>>> not changed, but I am adding a new RoleManager that can read a
>>> resolve components from several different jars automatically.
>>
>>
>>
>> do you envision any chance that fortress could mandate the use of a 
>> namespaced (not-javadoc) comment tag for those attributes?
>>
>> Just Curious.
> 
> 
> Problem is time.  I personally do not want to write a parser to read
> all the source code files and find the new DocTags in the component.
> I also have the oppinion that the proposed comment styles are ugly,
> though not nearly as ugly as the C# comment tags.
> 
> Its also a question of what's easy to tool?  We have tools already
> available to work with JavaDoc tags which makes things really easy to
> implement.  We also have the advantage that Java developers are *used*
> to JavaDoc tags.  It may not be the most elegant from your standpoint,
> but it does work.  (We all have things we prefer from an elegance
> point of view).

No problem, just curious of what others thought about this.

Stefano.