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Subject:  prototyping
Date:  2007-06-19 06:57:15
From:  scotty69
Response to: prototyping


Well, no tool is perfect. Example: Fire up NetBeans 5.5 and design a little form with a JList. Connect the JList's model within the designer to a method of another bean. The code for this connection is contained in the generated code, and there's even a footprint in the .form-descriptor. Now refactor the bean providing the ListModel (using NetBeans) and rename this method. Every reference gets properly renamed, except the generated code (and also not the .form). You have to edit the generated code because of a tool bug. That's not a great perspective for a production-quality software with years of lifetime and maintaince...

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