Vadim Gritsenko wrote:
Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote:
Vadim, have you seen our whiteboard with the list of things people
have been wondering about when it
came to deprecation?
Seen it but I would not be able to recall it.
I remember though that it was acknowledged that some of the stuff
written on the sheet of deprecated things really had no substitutes or
migration path towards 'new stuff'. Which only means that either it was
on the list by mistake or because 'new stuff' is half baked at the moment.
I think that you refer to the idea of deprecating sub-sitemaps which isn't an as
good idea as it seemed from a quick glance because there is no equivalent to get
the same functionality if you have to replace it with servlet-services and
Spring AOP. Hence I won't suggest sub-sitemaps for deprecation.
IIRC it wasn't the functionality of <map:mount> that made some people think that
we should deprecate sub sitemaps but the <map:components> part of sitemaps which
causes a lot of complicated code that we have to maintain. However, deprecating
<map:components> shouldn't be a problem because there already exists a migration
path of putting your component definitions into META-INF/cocoon/spring or
META-INF/cocoon/avalon.
The second "big thing" for deprecation that we discussed in Rome was the
cocoon:/ protocol and the the servlet:/ protocol instead. AFAIU the servlet:/
protocol doesn't provide all the "features" of the cocoon:/ protocol but that's
mostly caused by getting rid of side-effects.
Can somebody who knows the code and the functionality of <map:components> and
cocoon:/ in more detail than me comment on this?
- o -
I think we should discuss these two big topics first and then we can continue
with smaller things like the SimpleFormsTransformer, obsolete input modules,
etc. I hope that I find some time soon to write a summary that contains a list
with all those components.
P.S. to Vadim: Of course we will give you a chance to comment on this :-)
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