RE: Tables, Wrappers and MLs, oh my!

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And here's Joe's reply to my reply to Fred...heheh..

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@plutabrothers.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 4:00 PM
> To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Tables, Wrappers and MLs, oh my!
> 
> 
> I don't have time to write a full missive, obviously, but let 
> me drop a point in here.  Fred's version is the 
> "full-featured" version, which allows a lot of flexibility.  
> Even so, it's not complete, in that you can't assign an 
> arbitrary formatter to a given cell in a given row.
> 
> Abstraction for abstraction's sake is not always the way to 
> go.  What I try to do is think about what I want my 
> application code to look like.  What I'd LIKE to do is the following:
> 
> DataSource source = new DataSource(--data source parameters--);
> TableWidget widget = new TableWidget(source);
> widget.setFormatter(new HTMLFormatter());   (or XMLFormatter)
> out.println(widget.toML());
> 
> (or, for JSP:  session.putValue("widget", widget);)
> 
> In this case, my DataSource class needs to have certain 
> methods that the TableWidget can use.  These might include 
> getData and getFieldDefinitions (these would best be defined 
> in a TableDataSource interface, but that's a different 
> discussion).  This would be enough for a simple table, which 
> would have headings and the same data in each row.  The 
> formatting of the row would be based on the field 
> definitions, while dynamic attributes (such as error and 
> protect) would be part of the data from getData.
> 
> Too much abstraction can be as problematic as too little.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
> Reply-To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:30:47 -0600
> 
> >holy smokes!  
> 
> At first, OO programming sounded like more "theory" than reality.
> Up until now it seemed like a "strong possibility".
> Now it seems like "endless theory". :)
> 
> When I see all this, I have to ask, is it really worth it?  
> Why not do some
> OO and some procedural programming?
> 
> Does anyone else have any thoughts on this?  (I know Joe P's 
> out for the
> week).
> 
> - This post is purely rhetorical unless someone wishes to 
> answer the above
> questions.    This in no way is inteded to be a negative 
> post, I'm just
> thinking out loud.  
> 
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