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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:06:39 +0200
From: Reinhard Poetz <reinhard@apache.org>
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Daniel Fagerstrom wrote:

> Sure, seem like a good idea, but I found it hard to understand why you 
> disregard my practical experience 

Sorry if you've got the feeling that I desregard your practical experience. This 
isn't my intention at all. I'm just curious to see what the difference between 
multiple block inheritance and single block inheritance + composition, or in 
other words, what the difference between yours and Stefano's solution looks like 
in a *practical* example (I heard that *you* have practical experiences but I 
want to learn a bit from them). I read several pros and cons for both solutions 
but it's difficult for me to imagine how both solutions "feel" for me and which 
one I like more.

Usually when I have such a problem I start to draw interface diagrams and write 
some mocks implementating them. I will do the same here - of course this will 
not be the super-example portal/portlet-integration ;-)

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Reinhard P�tz           Independent Consultant, Trainer & (IT)-Coach 

{Software Engineering, Open Source, Web Applications, Apache Cocoon}

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