Tim Olson wrote:
>>>Yes, we habe FOM. The difference to the sitemap is that the sitemap
>>>enforces the contract while flow doesn't.
>>
>>One drastic approach would be to stop flow from being able to access
>>java at all, if not thru FOM. I would be in favor of that
>>once we have
>>the real block system running, but at that point it might
>>well be too late.
>
>
> we already have a nice system of flow helper methods to access entity beans
> and pump them into XML. we use flow to select which components are needed
> when, and the contract with our GUI designers is XML. we were already burnt
> quite badly when sendPage() became a requirement, since we were using flow
> to merely select actions and the sitemap had all of our branching. we are
> now unable to upgrade past 2.1.2 without major refactoring which honestly we
> can't afford to do.
> you theoreticians seem all too willing to break production systems to
> enforce your latest notion of best practices.
Tim, don't take the word for everything said in a RT thread and don't
worry that access to Java will be disabled in the 2.x branch (if ever)
as this certainly would break any production system running on with flow.
Guido
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