Re: Terminology: Visit vs. Global vs. ???

I just read the docs for the second time.  Here are
the terms I most confusing at first blush...

parameter
in (in what?, it seems relative not descriptive)
gesture

Maybe session would be a better word than visit, but I
guess we have to avoid using servlet words?

Scot


--- "Howard M. Lewis Ship" <[email protected]> wrote:
> So, I'm revisiting the documenation and I start
> wondering ... maybe we should clean up some of the
> terminology?
> 
> Where did "Visit" come from?  It actually predates
> Tapestry; I was on a project and we were killing
> trees with useless diagrams.  I was busy teaching
> the other developers about servlets and EJBs and we
> were on a tight schedule.  Anyway, I was pushing the
> idea that we should collect information that would
> be used by many different parts of the application
> into a central object, so that we wouldn't
> constantly have to getAttribute() and downcast.  I
> prefer keeping things strongly typed.
> 
> That started a discussion about what that central
> object would be called.  Somehow, we came up with
> Visit (i.e., it stores the information about the
> user's visit).  The intent with the name was to make
> it obvious that it was short-term information,
> discarded when the user's visit to the application
> ended.
> 
> Despite all that, I think calling it something else,
> say "Globals" (or what?  Suggestions welcome)  may
> simplify adoption.
> 
> Also, I don't know why I came up with "Gesture". 
> Gesture in UI terms is an all-encompassing term for
> any kind of input the user can do: keypress, mouse
> clicks and drags, etc.  But that's not really how
> Gesture is used in Tapestry, since Gesture should 
> be used when recognizing input (something the engine
> services do).
> 
> How about "EncodingOfURLAndRequestParameters"? 
> EncodedServiceRequest?  EncodedRequest? 
> RequestEncoding?  
> 
> 
> ----
> Howard Lewis Ship
> [email protected]
> http://tapestry.sf.net
> 
> 


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