On Apr 2, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> Bill Burke wrote:
>> Although a neat feature, dynamic sublocators are a pretty fringe,
>> esoteric use case that 99% of users won't want or need.
>
> Well, i guess we will just have to disagree on that latter point.
>
> The sub-locator (and fine grained access) concept was taken from the
> Hudson [1], which makes extensive use of the feature (for code reuse
> and for plug-ins).
>
> The NetBeans team have found the feature very useful for mapping
> resources to database tables.
>
> I know of other developers who are using it and like the reuse/
> DRYness it can offer.
>
I'm also using it for an internal project and its proving very handy.
Marc.
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Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.