Comments on: Annotations as language

By: Bill Shirley

Bill Shirley — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:42:51 +0000

Flex, JavaFX, etc. are extending scripting languages to not only be functional languages but also “declarative languages” – which is a nice way of saying a configuration file is defining how this thing works.

Annotations seem to be the same thing, a mixing of declarative/configuration with functional/oop. As it’s used in EJB, it’s basically moving XML configuration into the runtime-checked, compile-time checked code.

By: Weiqi Gao

Weiqi Gao — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:08:19 +0000

Are you sure you checked the dictionary? This Google search result seems to indicate that Mr. Easter had just invented a word. ;-)

By: Michael Easter

Michael Easter — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:57:24 +0000

hi Alex,

re: not weird at all. I didn’t convey the gist very well. My friend was commenting on the irony that the build is more complicated than the app, and that they are in a “new world” re: annotations.

This new world _is_ weird (i.e. alien, different) for them, but not necessarily bad or wrong.

I’ll have to think more on annotations as extra-syntacticular and/or wiring…. ;-)

Mike