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Subject: Re: Sprinifying CForms
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How will you make this compatibile with 2.1.x? The code  base is shared.

Giacomo Pati wrote:
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> Hi all
>
> I'm thinking about springifying CForms and want to check about oppinions.
>
> CFroms is utilizing lots of Avalon ServiceSelector and this hinders 
> extensibility of it as adding new Widget types etc. is becomming a 
> pain with config files in jars.
>
> I've thought about a Spring version of a ServiceSelector to allow a 
> more flexible configuration and extensibility with a class like
>
> class SpringServiceSelector implements BeanFactoryAware, ServiceSelector
>
> Which uses the BeanFactory to fullfill the contracts of the 
> ServiceSelector and thus flattens the configuration from having 
> components inside a ServiceSelector config as whith Avalon to all 
> beans at the same level and thus extensibility is for free than.
>
> I was thinking of going from Avalon config
>
>   <forms-formmanager logger="forms.model">
>     <widgets>
>       <widget name="form" 
> src="org.apache.cocoon.forms.formmodel.FormDefinitionBuilder"/>
>       .....
>     </widgets>
>   </forms-formmanager>
>
> to Spring config
>
>   <bean id="ServiceSelector/forms-formmanager"
>         class="SpringServiceSelector">
>     <property name="role" value="o.a.c.f.f.WidgetDefinitionBuilder"
>   </bean>
>   <bean id="o.a.c.f.f.WidgetDefinitionBuilder/form">
>         class="org.apache.cocoon.forms.formmodel.FormDefinitionBuilder">
>     ...
>   </bean>
>
> IIRC the SpringServiceSelector could lookup other beans by interfaces, 
> right?
>
> Anybody else think this is achievable and make sense?
>
> Ciao
>
> - -- Giacomo Pati
> Otego AG, Switzerland - http://www.otego.com
> Orixo, the XML business alliance - http://www.orixo.com
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