[cal10n-dev] Congratulations on a useful project; here's my suggestion

[Ceki Gulcu]

Takeshi Kondo wrote:
> Hello Rick
> 
> I have this use-case experience.
> 
> I think your suggestion has two problems.
> Message class you suggested isn't immutable. Object is call by reference.

Indeed, that's an important concern.

> And Message class must implement Serializable because Exception is 
> serialized in RMI. However Object isn't ensure to implement Serializable.

Very good point. We have a similar problem in logback. It can be addressed by 
serializing all basic Java types (Integer, Long, Doublem etc) "as is" and 
transforming other types to String before serialization.

> I think message need to be build as soon as possible to reduce several 
> problems.

Rick's argument about needing to defer translation to a later stage is quite a 
valid one. Ralph Goers made a similar argument. Two requests this early in the 
project must correspond to a real need, don't you think?

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