[picocontainer-dev] Synopsis of my thoughts on Pico 2

Since so many of your guy's work seems to go unappreciated, I wanted to let you
know my thoughts of Pico 2...


1 - PicoBuilder is great.  Easy to use, covers most of the normal cases.  Very
very cool.

2 - Pico slightly shortened names covers my own gripes about the amount of
typing I always needed to do.  Wonderful!  

3 - The differentiation between Behaviors, Injectors, etc is great.  Easy to
follow, good delineation.  I also like the "wrap" capabilities on the
ComponentAdapterFactories.  Perfect for assembling more complex chains of
factories!

4 - The changes to component Monitor are GREEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAT!  
	a - The ability to handle when a component is not found and return a new
value is spectacular.  It allows us to rework the NanoWAR hierarchy so that
containers behave in a parent/child relationship without necessarily having
references to each other.  Very very very cool. (And I would NEVER ever ever
have thought of working it that way!)
	
	b - Also, the ability to monitor no component found events takes care of
the whole "*TracingPicoContainers".  I'm perfectly ok with having those two
classes in gems dropped.

5 - Thank you for the cleanup of the NanoContainer API!!!!!!!!!!!!  The
hierarchy is much more manageable now.


Anyway, Paul, Mauro, Konstantin, Jörg, and anybody else I might have
forgotten.... what you've done is absolutely wonderful and I wanted to take a
moment to let you know it.

									-Mike

P.S.  Happy New year, and sorry I missed it but a belated Merry Christmas too!
:D




---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe from this list please visit:

    http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email