Re: Re: WebWork and XWork

> Especially during this phase of WW2 development where
> bad architectural decisions will likely become something everyone will
have
> to live with for a long time should they make it into the release version.

I am a mere mortal that implemented a single, simple feature, contributing
to an open source project. If I would 'question' bad architectural decisions
everytime I encounter them, I would have no social life whatsoever.

Mathias

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Miller" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 5:15 PM
Subject: [Opensymphony-developers] Re: WebWork and XWork


> Ahhhh.... I've just done some further digging and I now see why the code
is
> the way it is (and why it should all still be removed :-).
>
> The file webwork/src/webapp/tags.vm holds the key... Seems that at some
> point in the past there was a (nasty) solution to allow an arbitrary set
of
> parameters to be passed to a UI widget. All those icky methods were there
to
> allow the tag properties to be set one after the other, all chained
together
> (hence the "return this;"). But the newer (and far far cleaner) approach
is
> to use the #tag() macro. The tags.vm file says the chaining approach is
> deprecated, however since the WW code has never been released even as beta
> shouldn't that code have been removed completely back when #tag() was
> implemented?
>
> Mathias sorry for coming down so hard on you in my last post, in hindsight
> it was a little unfair given the circumstances. However I'd still hope
that
> seeing code like that would trigger off a few alarm bells and cause a
> developer to step back to question why it was like that rather than
blindly
> follow the example. Especially during this phase of WW2 development where
> bad architectural decisions will likely become something everyone will
have
> to live with for a long time should they make it into the release version.
>
> OK, enough ranting from me, I'm sure you'll all have ample opportunity to
> fire rants back my way should I ever find the time to actually contribute
> something myself!
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
>
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