Now now… there is interest ;-) Its July and lots of holiday going on… so be nice and understanding ;-)
Im pretty high on the JSON stuff. This is gaining traction and becoming a much more readable format. It would be nice to see a paradigm shift and begin using some of the more friendlier data formats.
There is some interest, see? ;-)
Jeff
On Jul 22, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Bill Shannon wrote:
> Reza Rahman wrote on 07/22/11 01:59 PM:
>> Bill,
>>
>> I guess it's a little disheartening that no one else on the alias is
>> chiming in on this - not sure if this is just that boring or that they
>> are judiciously biding their time :-).
>
> Ya, with this little interest here, it's not clear that it's worth
> making any of the proposed changes.
>
>> Anyways, would it help much that this approach might open the doorway to
>> 100% XML free, Java based configuration down the line or that it greases
>> the wheels for other possibilities like JSON or property file based DDs?
>
> I don't see why we need more ways of doing the same thing. You need to
> convince me that any of these is so much better than what we already have
> that it's worth doing.
>
>> It also helps make configuring CDI style DI easier for any managed bean...
>
> And that seems good.
>
>> To be honest though, I think just getting some kind of CDI XML in Java
>> EE 7 would be a good accomplishment in the scheme of things. I've never
>> been a proponent of making big changes in the standard without some
>> implementation precedent. If we defer the general overhaul of Java EE DD
>> to Java EE 8, this does give us (and hopefully others) a little more
>> room to do some "bleeding edge" implementation work on our own terms. As
>> far as you can see, there is nothing in the standard that stops us from
>> doing that, right?
>
> Right. I think it's fine for CDI to blaze the trail here and we can
> consider following their lead in EE 8.
>
> But only if I see more interest in this expert group! :-)