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Bug 89068

Summary:	Replace layer.xml with class level annotations
Product:	platform	Reporter:	jfurmankiewicz <jfurmankiewicz>
Component:	-- Other --	Assignee:	issues@platform <issues>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	blocker	CC:	anebuzelsky, hmichel, jglick, mmirilovic, puce
Priority:	P3
Version:	5.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description jfurmankiewicz 2006-11-09 21:32:28 UTC

Maintaining layer.xml is
a) error prone
b) a pain
c) XML is more trouble than its worth (IMHO) in most cases

It would be great it we could replace all of this using EJB 3.0-style
annotations, e.g.:

@File("/Actions/Edit")
@ShadowFile("Editors/text/x-jsp/Popup")
public class MyAction extends CookieAction {

} 

This would make module development much easier and faster. And it would
automatically handle any refactoring you do as well (i.e. no need to synchronize
refactored classes with their references in layer.xml).

Comment 1 puce 2008-10-25 12:50:45 UTC

Sounds interesting. Any opinions from the experts?

Comment 2 Antonin Nebuzelsky 2010-05-03 12:00:44 UTC

As a general enhancement this is probably a duplicate of issue 150804.

However getting rid of layer.xml completely is not achieved.

Reassigning to jglick.

Comment 3 Jesse Glick 2010-05-03 13:29:46 UTC

Annotations were introduced starting in 6.7 for particular purposes.