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Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 21:34:38 +0200
From: Sylvain Wallez <sylvain@apache.org>
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Ugo Cei wrote:

> Sylvain Wallez wrote:
>
>> The "byType" autowiring is more or less what I was talking about, but 
>> requires the wiring to become explicit as soon as more than one 
>> implementation exist in the system, which actually makes it less useful.
>
>
> I see what you mean. I think there are concepts in Spring (and other 
> containers) that should be incorporated in the design of Cocoon 3, 
> even if their actual implementation is different. OTOH, it will 
> probably take *years* for that design to solidify and who knows how 
> Spring will change in that timeframe. If we can give them some inputs, 
> maybe we can help shape it to better fit our needs.


+1! I'm starting to be fed up with all the mess introduced by the move 
from ComponentManager to ServiceManager! And I've also seen people 
(colleagues actually) that don't want to use Avalon because they 
consider it as "viral", as components have to depend on it.

>> They have an impressive doc!
>
>
> There's also a book coming out soon [1].
>
>     Ugo
>
> [1] 
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764558315/beblogging-20?ref=nosim 
>


One click more for beblogging ;-)

Sylvain

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