Re: Switching frameworks (was: what about adding spring ?)

I've tried to state my position before (this talk is not new), but
I'll try again.
I'm mostly framework agnostic. If we're going to refactor, i'd like to
get a core API, no-spring, no-turbine, no-whatever, and make the
framework grow in the view and the controllers, using that core-api.

This would also allow having "skins", or even parallel publishing
frameworks, it would enhance the testability of the system, etc,
etc...

And of course, a great part of "presentation logic" (currently coded
in the velocity templates) would move to the java api, so it can be
reused in other skins/technologies, tested, etc, etc...


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:35 PM, hussayn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ronny Voelker wrote:
>>
>> Johannes Hoechstaedter:
>> The Scarab code itself is at least partly almost unusable. It's full of
>> unnecessary complexity, redundancy and obsolete code. It's hard to
>> understand and that's why hard to change or extend.
>>
>> That's why refactoring should have a top priority, imo. I think a well
>> refactored Scarab could have half the size of the current code base or
>> even less, and be much easier to understand and more stable.
>>
>> This would make it much easier to add new functionality and also to switch
>> to a new framework.
>> In fact I think refactoring is the prerequisite for integrating major new
>> functionality and switching frameworks.
>>
>> It has not to be done in isolation, but it has to be done.
>>
>> Ronny
>>
> If we are going to refactor Scarab (i am trying some very first steps right
> now on the GUI side),
> wouldn't it be nice to directly refactor "into the final framework" ?
> I also thought about first refactoring, then adding a framework. But having
> the framework right
> at hand while refactoring sounds like getting some guidelines to me and less
> work at the end...
>
> Doing it the other way (first refactor, then add framework) would possibly
> duplicate work.
> But i never refactored a project like Scarab into a framework like Spring,
> so i may well be
> fooled by wishfull thinking...
>
> Hussayn
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