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

I think Visit is quite good. Using Session or SessionBean has too much 
overlap with Servlets & EJB. I dont like Global, globals are evil :)

EncodedRequest or RequestEncoding are good for me, but I worry about the 
impact this may have on existing code.

Regards Malcolm

>From: "Howard M. Lewis Ship" <[email protected]>
>To: "Tapestry Contrib" <tapestry-contrib-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
>Subject: [Tapestry-contrib] Terminology: Visit vs. Global vs. ???
>Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 07:32:59 -0500
>
>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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