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Subject: Re: WTKXSerializer -> BeanSerializer
From: Greg Brown <gkbrown@mac.com>
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:47:09 -0400
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FYI, I just prototyped this. It wouldn't be terribly difficult to =
support backwards compatibility with WTKXSerializer for 1.x, but it will =
be a much more straightforward change for 2.0 if we don't need to do =
that. So I will move this ticket to 2.0.

On Apr 20, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Greg Brown wrote:

> I personally prefer the simpler "Resources" to "ResourceMap", so I =
don't think I would advocate renaming that class. I also don't think it =
is a huge priority for Pivot to support JSR-250 - to me, it doesn't seem =
like it would be a common use case.
>=20
> @BXML (like @WTKX) means that the member refers to an object declared =
in a BXML (or WTKX) file.
>=20
> I am currently thinking that this change could be made for Pivot 1.5, =
but in a backwards compatible way. Then, in Pivot 2.0, we'd drop the =
backwards compatibility.
>=20
> On Apr 20, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Dirk M=F6bius wrote:
>=20
>> Greg Brown <gkbrown@mac.com> wrote:
>>> However, I think the "Resources" name clash would cause confusion, =
so I think it would be preferable to stick with the existing terminology =
and not attempt to support JSR-250 (the end result is the same either =
way).
>>=20
>> The (now dead) Swing Application Framework (SAF) called it =
"ResourceMap" to avoid the confusion.
>>=20
>> This is for Pivot 2.0, isn't it? +1 for renaming Resources to =
ResourceMap and to support those parts of JSR-250. This makes it easier =
for newbies: if a new user sees the the @Resource annotation in Pivot =
code the first time, he knows immediately what this means. The @BXML =
annotation doesn't say anything.
>>=20
>> Dirk.
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>=20