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Re: High level plans/ideas for _05

From: Ryan Lubke <Ryan.Lubke_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:35:04 -0800

Ryan Lubke wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> 1.2_04 will be out the door soon, so I have been giving kicking around
> some ideas
> for _05.
Thinking more about this, I'm curious if some of these these changes,
specifically the removal of commons code, qualify for a patch release?

Perhaps it would be best to create a JSF_1_2_ROLLING branches and put
the 1.2_x into maintenance mode and have the head represent 1.2.1 or 1.3?

Thoughts?

>
> - Remove dependencies of commons from the RI (at least the runtime
> portion)
> * refactor the config subsystem to use DOM/XPath
> + standard API in SE 5, no need for additional dependencies
> + Option to store the parsed DOMs in application scope
> for those who would like access to the parsed data (perhaps
> something in an extension element).
> + reduce JAR size of jsf-impl (no commons classes, no
> com.sun.faces.beans or rules)
> * ManagedBeanFactoryImpl has a dependency on
> BeanUtils - need to come up with equivalent methods
> for ReflectionUtils
>
> - Rewrite the renderers and supporting methods to:
> * reduce the number of write calls
> * reduce the amount of formatting characters written?
> * just generally more effecient
>
> - Bug fixing of course
>
> Anyone have ideas on some other things to try and tackle?
> Comments on the above?
>
>
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