From: usw wickramasinghe <mastershield2007@...>
Date: 2009-03-13T02:15:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Hi..About Gsoc 2009 project ideas...

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Thnx Roger further enlightening us with your prospective  ideas for Ruby
.And Thank you Pat for the information you have mentioned  , i'll constantly
poll for new developments with the links you have provided .

And Roger about the annotation framework  ...I find it really useful for web
services and stuff (like testng tools,etc) the presence of a proper
annotaion framework ,as it will provide ways and means to declare some
meta-data needed for these programmes (such as schema definitions ,test
criterias,etc) , in the programme itself rather than going for external
descriptors and stuff . In java we get java.lang.annotation  framework (and
various other adhoc annotation schemas ) where use of @ is extensively used
as  annotation syntax  (ie:- @depricated ==> for javadoc stuff , @interface
=>custom type declerations, etc) .

In java you also  get seperate annotation processing tools[Like Annogen] ,
varoious annotation API's, etc to support these annotaion specifications .
However in Ruby i didn come accross  such a framework for
specifying/processing annoations and its purely my assumption that ruby
currently doesn't support such behavior (if i'm wrong pls some one enlighten
me on this ) . I'm no annotaion frameworks geek , bt  would really like
suggest this as a Gsoc proposal for Ruby and willng to undertake such a
project with a mentor who knws this stuff well..
And thnx again for ur kind feedback..

-Udayanga

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