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Original status: 1-Dispatched; Suggested Status: NEW Original Target Release: shortfin_dev; Suggested Target Milestone : 5.5 Original submitter: joellelam Description: Component XML files should be generated via introspection. Our current method is to manually create an xml file for each component item. There is then redundancy between the xml file and BeanInfo in the following areas: images, names, resources, and maybe tooltip. I know that there is an effort to do this functionality by [edwingo]. [edwingo]'s focus is primarily on imported complibs, but the functionality is similar. It takes a class and generates and xml file for the palette. I know there is a movement towards loading all components through [edwingo]'s code. This would then make the RFE obsolete. There are some benefits to the current method. By having these static defined xml files, we have increased our performance. Moving towards having all component loaded by complib may bring back earlier performance issues. There should be effort made towards only creating these xml files once and never again. This would mean decreased performance on first startup, but after that we will continue to have the performance gains that we currently do. Evaluation: (by edwingo) As I understand it, the current plan is to add this to the shortfin update release.
Obsolete milestone, please reevaluate
I'm not sure what the plans are regarding this issue. I would guess that nothing will change in this area unless someone thinks this is a priority. So I will mark this as future.