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object translators

in the year 2000, the buzz will be object translators, aka, property editors, aka closures, aka un/marshallers, aka de/serializers, aka reflected methods, etc. and everyone will conform to a standard api

we'll have libraries of translators, too; and we'll define the rules by which a given translator is chosen for conversion between types. and we'll have translators that don't have return values, and translators that take multiple values, etc

and what we'll do, is, we'll pipe data between these translators and translator libraries. REST will be piping data from a web request to a translator that converts http messages to sql (with maybe JSON or XML or AMF in between, plus validation/exception handling and security)

but we'll add these "plus" features (exception handling, security, caching, etc) with aop and additional translators/libraries

Posted at 08:35PM Jun 26, 2010 by chris in General  |