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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 19:03:56 -0400
From: "Dan Diephouse" <dan@envoisolutions.com>
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On 8/7/07, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Along these lines I was wondering if it was possible to leverage
> existing
> > annotations from JAXB & JPA for those who have using those technologies.
> We
> > could automatically create workspaces/collections/entries based on the
> JPA
> > relationships. Then we could use JAXB to do the serialization. Not sure
> yet
> > if thats a stupid idea... Thoughts?
> >
>
> Hmm.. I'd rather limit the number of external things we'd be depending
> on... Abdera already has way too many external deps.  What would be
> possible, however, is to provide some way of extending the default
> converter so that these additional things can be handled.


Yeah, I didn't mean to suggest it should be included in the core. Just could
be an interesting add-on...

- Dan


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