Re: Making Pollo extendible

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 21:36, Al Byers wrote:
> Hi Bruno,
> 
> I would like to make my AG101 XSL editor/debugger use the Pollo 
> codebase. There are a number of changes that need to take place, but I 
> thought that I would bring it up first before submitting a bunch of 
> requests.

Good strategy :-)

> 
> I want to be able to extend both the Pollo and the PolloFrame classes. 
> The main problem in doing so seems to be that PolloFrame instantiates 
> Pollo in its class initialization code (is that the right description?).

Not really. Pollo is instantiated in the main method, but it's a
singleton managed using a static. (not the best design of course, but
that code was written at mega-speeds).

>  
> Any chance that we could pass Pollo as an arg to the PolloFrame 
>  constructor instead?

Yes, but why? What are you trying to achieve by changing that? (not that
I'm opposed to it, I'd just like to know the rationale behind it)

> 
> BTW,  are you still doing lots of stuff with Cocoon?

More or less, yes (should be increasing more and more). We (the company
I work for) have released an open-source database reporting server that
uses Cocoon as it's publishing layer. See xreporter.cocoondev.org.
Currently I'm mostly working on that.

>  Any thought of 
> tying that work to Pollo?

Not immediately. Don't have the time to do everything :-(

> 
> Hope all is well.

Sure, hope all is well with you too.

-- 
Bruno Dumon                             http://outerthought.org/
Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center
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