Working on SIM-82
Joseph Ottinger <[email protected]>
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You know, part of the problem with SIM-82 is that the decorators are applied in a massive rat's-nest of code. Would anyone vastly object to me looking into ripping it all into tiny little pieces and reassembling it in such a way that it, you know, works? This would be a pretty fundamental rewrite. The apply decorator tag and the pagefilter would both be scrapped, while the configuration gets left alone (as do the mappers) - the response and request wrappers would be added to and reorganized (I know, I know, you're thinking "Request wrappers? There are none!" Well, there should be - and there is in SIM-83.) The parsers would be left alone, too - it's mainly in applying the decorators themselves that things get wonky. The chores would be to rewrite the core of applying the decorators - I'm willing to take that on, as I've been spending my free time in that stuff lately - and in testing to make sure everything works as expected. I think we can manage that, but I don't have every container handy, so there may be behavior I can't mirror locally. Any suggestions/advice/refusals? (I can hear them now: I'm mainly writing this to give you a chance to say stuff like "sitemesh is good enough, it's only on one main container that it's badly broken, it works for me," etc. See, when you say stuff like that, it means I can throw up my hands and ignore the problem just like everyone else, which frees me up for other tasks again. :) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph B. Ottinger http://enigmastation.com IT Consultant [email protected] Editor-in-Chief - Java Developer's Journal [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click