Re: [Wtp-wst-dev] comments about new API design in psychopath engine

[Mukul Gandhi <mukul.gandhi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

All of this explanation from Dave and Jesper
is fair enough.

Many thanks.

Regards,
Mukul




From:      
 David Carver <d_a_carver@xxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 "Web Standard
Tools developer discussions." <wtp-wst-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:      
 19/04/2011 05:44 PM
Subject:    
   Re: [Wtp-wst-dev]
comments about new API design in psychopath engine
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Mukul, in regards to the package naming, it isn't unheard
of for projects to have a package the specifically has the work API in
the name.   For one thing it clearly communicates that this is API.
 Just because a class is publicly accessibile doesn't necessarily
mean we want it as API.

There are other ways to handle this as well, many eclipse projects will
use the word, "internal", to indicate that these classes aren't
API.    As of right now, the API change date for Eclipse projects
on the release train has passed, and this is a minor issue in regards to
package naming, so we'll probably just leave it as is.

Also for the Type interfaces, at one time IBM had submitted the Xerces's
type information to the W3C to try and get it standardized, but the proposal
never made it beyond the proposal stage.   Since we didn't want to
have to depend and bring in the Xerces api classes and interface files
directly, it was best to just create our own.  Plus this allows as
Jesper said, for other type systems to be added by other implementations.
  So one could take the eclipse EMF XSD implementation and use it
for the the type system if one wanted, or the WTP ContentModel as well.

Dave