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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 22:16:12 +0100
Subject: Re: [betwixt] where to place betwixt files
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From: robert burrell donkin <robertburrelldonkin@blueyonder.co.uk>
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On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 08:10 PM, Brian K. Wallace wrote:

> On 12 Jun 2003 at 12:11, Larry Young wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>          I thought I had seen a posting about this awhile ago, but I
>> couldn't find it on the mail list archive.  In fact I didn't see any
>> postings for betwixt after February.

there have been quite a few postings on the list since then but 
development hasn't been as swift as we'd hoped...

>>          I'm in the process of jar-ing my application and I was trying to
>> figure out where I need to put my *.betwixt files in the JAR.  I was 
>> going
>> to put them all into a single 'betwixt' directory, but what happens
>> down-the-road when I have two classes in different packages with the same
>> name?  Does betwixt even allow this?  Does betwixt rely on the path of 
>> the
>> class to find the *.betwixt file??
>
> Place the betwixt file in the same package as the source file it's 
> defining. A classfile
> com.mycompany.MyClass would have a corresponding betwixt file 
> MyClass.betwixt
> in the com.mycompany package.

+1

(that's the way things work at the moment.)

it should very easy to add a strategy interface that would allow custom 
.betwixt file loading. if this is a priority for anyone, then maybe they'd 
like to contribute a patch ;)

(for some guidelines see http://jakarta.apache.org/site/getinvolved.html 
and http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/patches.html)

- robert