[jsword-devel] i18n and Actions

[Aleksander Rozman - Andy]

At 2.4.2004, you wrote:

>Hi Andy,
>
>I think the biggest difference between our coding styles is that you 
>prefer a minimalist approach, but my approach aims to be more generic.
>
>The reason I tend toward a more generic approach is that usually you can 
>turn a generic but slow solution into a faster minimalist solution, but it 
>is harder to generalize a highly tuned minimalist solution, however I can 
>understand that this approach is frustrating for developers that need to 
>get at the more minimalist approach during development.
>
>The 2 examples in your mail (Actions and I18N) both fit into this pattern. 
>We can easily run some eclpise refactorings or ant macros across the 
>JSword source to convert the generic Msg i18n solution into a minimalist 
>String based i18n solution, but the reverse is not possible. Similar 
>arguments work for JSwordGUI vs. Desktop.
>
>There are plenty of things we can do to make JSword faster, but for me 
>making it function properly is more important right now so my vote is to 
>continue to be generalist until the cries of "xyz is too slow for me" 
>drown out the cries of "xyz doesn't work".
>
>Sorry to be a stick-in-the-mud.
>
>Joe.

Really? What does your actions have that mine don't? Nothing they are same, 
except mine uses less memory and your uses much more? Functionality is the 
same...

Andy


>Aleksander Rozman - Andy wrote:
>
>>At 2.4.2004, you wrote:
>...
>>I have already told that this way of creating Actions is not good... When 
>>you create application you should use as little as possible action 
>>classes, but instead implement one ActionListener for more actions. Here 
>>is sample how I did it (I started makeing changes on JSword some time 
>>ago). Also included is my file for I18N..., which is used by this class.
>>I also mentioned about I18N, but I couldn't convince the boss that my way 
>>is better even if it's used by almost all other java programmers...
>>Andy
>
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