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Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 5:40 pm
Post subject: Paneling
So what are everyone's rules for paneling. I know I've experimented with it for a time, but never got a really good handle on it. Most of my creative stuff didn't work. I finally just went with 1 page = 1 panel. Does anybody have a system or set of rules for paneling their comic?
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Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 6:53 pm
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I think your comic works okay with 1 panel per page, especially since you have your navigation buttons at the top as well as the bottom, which makes it easy to move to the next page, just keep the mouse where it is, over the next button, and click when ready.
You could as an alternative stack several panels on top of each other (you've maybe tried this) so the reader could scroll down and enjoy reading a sequence, but this takes away the "framing" effect that each panel currently enjoys.
Boils down to personal choice, I think.
I throw individual panels into my browser and let the browser arrange them for me, then take a .jpg snapshot of the whole page for uploading to display sites. No one else seems to do this, so I'm probably not the one to ask about rules for paneling, but I'll be interested in other replies, I'm always looking for a smarter/faster way to do things.
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Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 9:49 pm
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dpat57 wrote:
You could as an alternative stack several panels on top of each other (you've maybe tried this) so the reader could scroll down and enjoy reading a sequence,
Try pressing the Multi-page option in the sidebar.
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Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 10:56 pm
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@dpat - I think I like your idea quite a bit. It wouldn't work for me (at least in this project) but it accounts for different monitor sizes pretty nicely. But it does look a bit odd since blankspace can creep up when the panels are
different heights
As for my process: My general rule is to average about six panels per page. This isn't a hard rule since it's an average, so I often go over that.
First and foremost, I plan out how I want the panels laid as I'm putting the script together. I'll write a whole chapter, then once it's done, go back through the file and label which dialogue I want together in a panel and how big the panel should be. (I have pretty generic notes for sizes, like basic, lrg, split top/bot, full (page), etc. Then after that, I go through
and logically split them into pages.
Planning is really important for me, but sometimes what I plan doesn't actually work once I start putting the page together. Just having that plan is enough to get things off the ground though.
I use Manga Studio 4 EX, and the panel layer with the panel cutter tool makes it really easy to make panels and adjust them.
I tend to cut across first, using the gridlines and space them about six boxes from the center. For the vertical cuts, I typically only have one section that cuts across the center - the reason being that I think different panel sizes helps keep the layout more interesting. How each section is cut depends on what the panel is going to look like though.
I sketch my pages before inking them, and the sketch phase is when I decide how the paneling will look. It's also when I letter, so I can make sure the art doesn't get covered by the bubbles and it all fits nicely in the panel.
I usually make my panels squares/rectangles, but I'll use more diagonally cut panels for two reasons: 1) if two panels have something that's happening at the same time (like on panels 3 & 4
) or for action scenes, like this:
I haven't had a lot of actiony scenes yet though, so it's more experimental at this point.
So yeah, I'm kind of systematic, and I have to wonder how much of what I do is actually picked up by readers. Doesn't matter whether or not it is, though, I just need a plan.
@vulpeslibertas - I think if you kept the style you have now, that would make your panels really Tumblr-friendly. (Not that I have any idea on how to use Tumblr properly.)
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Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 11:11 pm
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Full disclosure, I haven't actively updated my comic for years. I keep thinking I'll get back to it one day. Work and other projects keep interfering. At the moment, I'm working on a videogame.
I tried to do a lot of artsy stuff with my panels, but nothing ever worked out. I kept drawing back and simplifying until I arrived a the one-page panel. It works, though its maybe a bit bland.
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Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 11:19 pm
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vulpeslibertas wrote:
Full disclosure, I haven't actively updated my comic for years. I keep thinking I'll get back to it one day.
Yeah, I remember you mentioning that (I think?) in another thread, but figured you might be prepping to come back to it.
As for being bland, I don't think yours are so much, since you were doing backgrounds. I'd figured you were going for a sort of movie-feel with the whole 3D thing and one-shot panels. If you had a lot of blankspace, that would be a problem.
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Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 11:35 pm
Post subject: Re: Paneling
vulpeslibertas wrote:
Does anybody have a system or set of rules for paneling their comic?
I'm not sure I understand what you are asking about.
Are you looking for stuff like "borderless panels generally feel less anchored in time"?
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Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 12:55 am
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Based on what MindChimera said...
My layouts are not at all systematic. Anything but.
I take my script and I divide it into pages based on amount of material and story rhythm, and then I sketch out (very roughly) a storyboard of each page.
When I draw the storyboards, the panel borders are generally the last thing to get on the page. First I sketch the people (or objects, if that's what needs to be shown to get the story across), and then I write in the dialog bubbles, and only then do I worry about where one panel ends and the next one begins.
That's also the point where I decide one image needs to be bigger and another smaller, or that I can crop the image differently, or that these two panels ought to be matching pairs, or that I should move this dialog bubble to there, or whatever. I shift things around until the progression though time seems clear, and I like how the page looks.
If I can't achieve both those goals, then I split the amount of script I have into two pages, and try again.
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Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 1:43 am
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I have the same panel layout every time (a grid of 6), so panel layouts are something I never have to think about for my comic. I think it's cool when people focus a lot on their layouts and create ones that really work, but sometimes I get lost if it's not clear which order they go in. In general I wish people would make their layouts simpler.
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Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 4:43 am
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I tend to work very intuitively, so I've had to think about this for quite a bit before I could come up with any rules that I use to decide what I'm going to do.
I think I have figured out what a few of the subconcious rules I was using are, though. I don't know if they will help anyone else, but for whatever they're worth:
1) The fewer panels, the better.
Whatever I have to say, I try to say it with the fewest possible images.
So, if I have two people talking. And there are no particularly important changes in facial expression, I will have one bigger picture of the two of them, and multiple speech bubbles to go with it, rather multiple small pictures that have essentially the same content, with one speech bubble for each.
Bigger, fewer images makes it possible for me to show detail more clearly. If you aren't into detail, maybe there's no advantage to this rule other than to avoid pointless repetition?
Sometimes I will have one person whose body language and facial expression doesn't change much, but the other person's does. So I might have have a tall thin panel with the one person shown in head to toe, allowing for the full display of the body language, and then have beside that two or three panels with the other person's face, showing the various changes in expression. To indicate that the tall panel is continuous with the panels beside it, I can overlap the smaller panels over top of the big panel, or I can widen the first panel and inset the smaller ones into it.
2) Information sets, should be made into visuals sets when possible. The overlapping side panels of facial expressions mentioned above can be made into a " visual set" by making them the same size and spacing them evenly.
3) Balance is pleasing to the mind and the eye. Symmetry is a form of balance that is very static. Other forms of balance have a greater sense of motion.
I could split my page in half and put one person on one side, and one on the other. That's symmetrical. But the long tall side panel versus the three little panels on the other side, is also balanced, and a bit less "stiff".
For Black Flag I often created non-symmetrical balance, by using diagonal lines, which are even more dynamic, but I don't think I ever used that technique with Scent of Spring. Maybe because Scent of Spring has no action, and so I thought the squarer more static forms of balance seemed to suit the feel of the story better?
4) Shape the panels to enhance the art, rather than shaping the art to fit the panel.
5) The most important stuff should usually be given the most space on the page.
6) Think outside the box.
Not all art needs to be confined to a bordered panel. The overlapping panels mentioned in the first rule created a sense that the first panel was continuous. Another way to create the same effect is to layer panel-less artwork over top of multiple panels. Artwork that is layered over other artwork like this, feels more important than it's size and shape would otherwise indicate, but borderless artwork also feels less anchored in time. (That can be a good thing sometimes.)
During action scenes, I frequently layer one image directly over another with no borders between them, creating a sense of continuous flowing movement.
Having an image break out of it's panel border, can create some interesting effects. It can make an action seem more abrupt, extreme or violent. It can create visual tension and a sense of conflict, as one image invades another image's space. It can probably do other things too, that I haven't figured out yet.
And, er, that's all I've figured out so far.
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Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 8:57 am
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vulpeslibertas wrote:
Try pressing the Multi-page option in the sidebar.
<slaps head> D'oh! Didn't even notice that!
MindChimera wrote:
@dpat - I think I like your idea quite a bit. It wouldn't work for me (at least in this project) but it accounts for different monitor sizes pretty nicely. But it does look a bit odd since blankspace can creep up when the panels are
different heights
<slaps head again> I should'a taken that into account since I knew that panel was irregular, it needed breaks fore and aft, fixed, thanks. (Then again it was a daft experiment in the first place, I'll avoid in future and keep to my standard panel height... which is defined by the size of my screen as I take a .jpg snapshot.)
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Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 1:45 pm
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When I started the comic I was only using two basic layouts -- three wide panels, or two wide panels and a third split one. This quickly stopped working out for me. Getting more variety has been an... interesting learning process, for someone who's as non-visual as I am.
My basic workflow these days for panelling and structure:
1) Script. This tells me how many panels I'm going to need. I do panel breaks within the scene depending on people's moods shifting, scene changes, people entering/leaving, etc. As Lavenderbard says, you generally want as few panels as possible per page to get your point across -- it's much better to have a single large panel than a lot of smaller ones.
2) Look at the space requirements. How many people are in the scene? How much dialogue do I have cram in there? Is there important action that I have to be sure people see? If there's been a shift in place from the last page/panel, I'll generally also allow more space in the first panel to let people get oriented to where we are, who's there, et cetera. Aside from size, I should know the general shape that would be best for the panel (a wide panel allows for more people and background elements showing; a tall panel is great for small, close groups of two or three people and showing more body language. That sort of thing.)
3) String together the panel size requirements in such a way that I have a page's worth of panels in a reasonably logical flow.
4) Drink.
At one point I had a little flipbook with various layouts, organized by number of panels: it helped a lot when I was struggling with step 3. I've finally gotten a bit better at this but the flipbook still gets grabbed from time to time.
I still have issues with cramming too much dialogue per panel and per page. At some point I started defining the lengths of my pages as "however long they need to be to fit in all the panels", which helped a bit. I also fight a fair bit with flow, but I'm having trouble vocalizing what I do there and may need to come back later with pictures.
And of course there's figuring out the camera angles and who needs to be foregrounded in each panel and remembering to leave space for dialogue and such, which is never-ending fun, but a bit outside the scope of the question....
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Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 3:06 pm
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I do pretty much what MindChimera does, but I don't use the panel tool in Manga Studio (though that is the program I work in). I use the ruler tool - the "create ruler" option (not to be confused with the "draw shape" option) - and the same brush I use for drawing the comic. The ruler tool creates a path that brushes snap to - this way it looks more organic and it matches the art inside the panels.
I thumbnail everything on paper first, but just like MindChimera, I often change things when I find better ways to get something done, or when things simply don't work like they did in the thumbnail.
I'm always trying to think of new ways to use panels, new composition, shapes... but it hardly ever feels appropriate.
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Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 4:12 pm
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Ha, my first thought was we'd be talking about paneling at a convention. Panel layouts. OK.
I never really thought of it in terms of rules before, but if I had any rules it would be these:
1) Panels, much like pages, represent story beats. The concept is a bit similar to sentence structure. If the page is the paragraph, the panels are the individual sentences. Just as with any good writing, you want to vary your sentence length and composition to make it interesting. Same goes for panels. Variety is important.
2) As MindChimera said, I keep my panels simple boxes unless something important or dramatic is happening. Unusually-shaped panels, if used sparingly, can be a subtle way of saying to the reader, "pay attention."
3) Panel shape can convey a sense of timing (a lesson I learned from Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics). A series of short or thin panels are great for a fast staccato pace, long horizontal ones can suggest a longer length of time, or a pause for reflection.
4) Sometimes it's funnier or more dramatic for action to happen between panels.
5) I try to make sure at least one panel in each page has enough of a background in it to set the scene, to give a sense of place to the reader. This has changed from my comic book days when I used to think a place-setting panel was only necessary once per scene. Now, for webcomics, it's per page.
6) Word balloons trump panels. There is a "reading order" to panels on a page that I'm sure most of us are familiar with, a sort of top-down and left-to-right pattern, but the eye is naturally going to want to follow the word balloons. You can completely screw up the panel order and frustrate your reader with ill-placed balloons. Conversely, you can have the freedom to draw your panels in whatever crazy way you want if you place the word balloons in such a way as to lead the eye through the page. (See
this example of both bad and good panel/balloon combos in a Marvel comic
, posted at BleedingCool.)
That's all I got for now.
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Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 8:07 pm
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ttallan wrote:
There is a "reading order" to panels on a page that I'm sure most of us are familiar with, a sort of top-down and left-to-right pattern, but the eye is naturally going to want to follow the word balloons. You can completely screw up the panel order and frustrate your reader with ill-placed balloons. Conversely, you can have the freedom to draw your panels in whatever crazy way you want if you place the word balloons in such a way as to lead the eye through the page. (See
this example of both bad and good panel/balloon combos in a Marvel comic
, posted at BleedingCool.)
I find the first page on that link less confusing. I naturally read panels the same way I read text - left to right, and then down and left. Since there are no obvious cues that the order is otherwise, I naturally assume that that's what it is, especially since the layout is all in rectangles - it looks pretty straightforward to me. In the second one, though, I think it works, but it always throws me off a little when someone changes the standard panel order, unless there are arrows going from one panel to the next. I guess this affects me more than it does for most readers.
Anyway, I think most people would agree that if the reader has to stop and think about the panel layout, it interferes with the flow of the comic.
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What type of discs would you like to see in the player package and giving away at the Buffalo Trace Open? We are ordering Innova Discs.
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Draft Status: As I said, where Jones will be drafted has less to do with his talent and much more to do with what the doctors say. If he checks out medically, there's no doubt he's a first round type of talent, especially to a 3-4 team, looking for a DE who can get pressure on the quarterback in the base set. But his stock could slip out of the first round, because teams don't want to commit that first round money to a player who might not be as durable as they should be.
Final Analysis: I've always felt like Jones was playing out of position in college. He did a great job on the interior for Syracuse, but he is a little light in the back end, and got pushed around at times. Moving him outside, letting him work one on one with a tackle, would really showcase his talents. He's a better run defender than his stats would indicate, because he just doesn't always get the chance, and his ability to get into the backfield on passing downs is on record. I would like to think he'll be find in the medical checks and cement a first round pick to a team like Denver or the Jets who need that big body on the outside of their defensive line. Jones is certainly not on the same level as Gerald McCoy or Ndamukong Suh, but he's absolutely part of that next tier of defensive linemen.
Reminds me of: Darnell Dockett, DE Arizona Cardinals-Both disruptive tackles in college and Dockett has made the move to end, and is showing that he's even better when he's not seeing the double teams in the interior. Jones, if he's healthy can definitely be a productive pro. It took Dockett a couple of years to learn his position and get comfortable playing outside, but it happened, and the same could happen for Jones.
Red Flags: Injuries
Scouting Report written by Curt Popejoy
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|Introduction | Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ200 sensor performance | Conclusion
Alongside a successful line of Mirrorless Hybrid cameras Panasonic continue to refresh their lineup of fixed lens Bridge cameras. Launched in July 2012 the Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ200 offers a 24x super zoom, 12fps continuous shooting and 1080 60p HD video. Upgraded from its predecessor, the Lumix DMC-FZ150, this latest model also boasts a fixed maximum aperture, higher resolution EVF, greater ISO and shutter speed ranges as well as a new HDR mode.
Panasonic's flagship high-end compact the Lumix DMC-FZ200 is aimed at serious enthusiasts looking for an all-in-one shooting solution for holidays, day trips and general photography. It features a 24x optical zoom with an equivalent 25-600mm focal range and a fixed f/2.8 maximum aperture. The latter is unusual for a bridge camera and should be of interest if you're considering one for sports or wildlife photography.
Its impressive features don't stop there either and although continuing to use the 12.1 megapixel High Sensitivity MOS 1/2.3-type sensor found on its predecessor, the Lumix DMC-FZ200 offers a number of other improvements. These include a higher resolution 1.3m Dot EVF, a greater 100–6400 ISO range, an improved 60secs – 1/4000sec shutter speed range, not to mention High Speed movies, a HDR mode and improved battery-life. The Lumix DMC-FZ200 also features 1080 60p video in AVCHD or MP4 formats, a 3.0-inch, free-angle 460k-dot LCD screen, Panorama Shot mode and RAW+JPEG image capture.
So does all this extra functionality affect the good DxOMark Scores achieved by its predecessor? And with a $598 price tag how does it rank against cheaper rivals like the $450 Canon PowerShot SX50HS with its incredible 50x zoom or the $450 Nikon COOLPIX P7700? We put all four cameras in one review to see how their DxOMark Sensor Scores compare.
To provide photographers with a broader perspective about mobiles, lenses and cameras, here are links to articles, reviews, and analyses of photographic equipment produced by DxOMark, renown websites, magazines or blogs.
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The Lumix DMC-FZ200 ($599) is Panasonic's flagship super-zoom digital camera. While recent models have been relatively minor upgrades, the FZ200 returns to its roots by featuring a lens with an F2.8 maximum aperture across its entire zoom range. The early models in the FZ series (FZ1 - FZ20) had lenses with constant maximum apertures, but that stopped with the FZ30, launched back in 2005. Last year's DMC-FZ150 had an F2.8 - F5.2 lens, so the lens on the FZ200 is a huge improvement, and the extra brightness should make a real difference at long focal lengths and/or in poor light, allowing you to shoot at lower, less noisy ISO settings.
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Added by balanr | February 07, 2013
We are looking at the FZ200 for 2 reasons. 600mm at f2.8 and 720p at 120fps. Both reasons for bird watching. How does the Nikon compare to that!
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Added by birdlives | February 18, 2013
Re: Really?
Well, yes if you look at the comparison through the rather narrow view of birding watching, the Panasonic has the Nikon beat. But when you are comparing sensor performance and IQ, which is what DxOMark does, the P7700 has a clear advantage. No need to get your feathers ruffled.
Added by noirist | February 05, 2013
Your tests are absurd
It's absurd to apply the same tests for fixed lens cameras as you use for interchangable lens cameras. For fixed lens cameras, you should provide tests that measure the image quality produced by the sensor and lens together, not just the sensor alone. After all there is no way to change the lens on a fixed lens camera so who cares how well the sensor does by itself?
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Added by BillGeiss | May 22, 2013
Re: Your tests are absurd
I agree since they need to measure the total system to make any valid judgements.
I also wonder why anyone would prefer to look through an electronic viewfinder of 201K which cripples both the Nikon and Canon bridge cameras ? Who can hold a 1,200 mm lens at arms length to compose with the external LCD ? Silly.
If you can't see it, how can you photograph it ?
Fujifilm Finepix and Panasonic Lumix both provide high resolution eye level viewfinders which are big differentiators in favor of their bridge cameras.
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Compacts and High end compacts are very difficult to test, we try to perform test on the most awaited but we cannot test every compact lenses.
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South Manchester SC 1st vs Temple Fortune A
By Danny Caro, February 11, 2013
South Manchester Sports Club cruised into the quarter-finals of the Peter Morrison Trophy following a 5-0 victory over Temple Fortune A in a tie delayed for more than an hour after South's Marc Parry suffered a serious injury to his left arm. Here is the pick of the action. Photos: Chris Tofalos
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Doesn't he play the 4? They could slide him to the 5.Originally Posted by Harvey Hornet
charlie is a BUST before he gets to play.. JUST LOOK AT HIS FACE.. HE WONT SELL
Doesn't he play the 4? They could slide him to the 5.Originally Posted by Harvey Hornet
Time for some football!!!
Toronto is crazy...they shoulda traded for jmag and gave us the 7th picked
Could Villanueva be headed to New orleans? naw. lol
AKA St. David
Do you think Ryan Gomes will fall to us at SF? I don't doubt he'll make our team.
Or do we draft a PF and address the 3 spot in free agency. Feasibly, Ronald Murray from SEA? Rahim? and they may go for Simmons, but the common consensus is they won't a)lure him away b)the N.O. organization is leery of bringing another LA lifer who'll think the city a prison.
Looks like it's off for now.Originally Posted by ClemsonKidNO
WCH, crap, Fakers may get Green after all. Don't say I didn't call it!!
What happens is my prediction on HH's other thread, to wit, the Hornets would not make any deals this draft.Originally Posted by whoah whoah
The Knicks are on the clock. The Knicks were rumored to be talking to the Hornets about Mags...
New York on the clock. Prepare to hear serious boos from the boys in the Garden. Just a feeling.
Toronto getting mashed by the commentators, isn't it great hearing someone else getting blasted?
He's actually more of a 3 than a 5. All I can see is him backing up Bosh I guess.Originally Posted by West Coast Hornet
gerry was almost right on it. He did have Green available at 7, but he thought TOR would take him. I don't want the Fakers to get him. In fact, I want the NBA to take the 10 pick away from the Fakers and give it to the Anaheim Clippers of Los Angeles.Originally Posted by Trueblood
Licht, Gerry and Gil are saying the Raps may have picked him for another team, but they doubt it's the Hornets.Originally Posted by Saints63213
harvey any inside info with the knicks or just assumptions?
Originally Posted by CP3Originally Posted by Lebron James
they boo everyone the Knicks pick, at least lately. It's a tough crowd to please. LOLOriginally Posted by St. Rock
Originally Posted by Nthshorehornet
poor granger...
Dont hear to many boos actually.
I don't know why the Fakers want him so bad. He'll come off the pine behind Kobe for as long as he's a Laker.Originally Posted by West Coast Hornet
if im mags, with all these trade rumors, id be a little mad at the hornets and wouldnt necessarily want to play for them...
but im not mags...
All assumptions. I didn't get a chance to talk with anyone today. Actually, I didn't want to be a nuisance. Today was a busy day around Hornets camp. I'm just going on the same rumors all of you are hearing.Originally Posted by whoah whoah
Did that 23 foot tall chinese guy declare for the draft?
I HATE GOLDEN STATE!!!! IF THEY GET OUR HOMETOWN BOY ITS ON!!! i think they go big man... or maybe green?
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DATE & TIME: Saturday, October 27, 7:00 p.m. (et).
FACTS & STATS: Site: Hughes Stadium (32,500) -- Fort Collins, Colorado. Television: KTVD, ROOT (RM). Home Record: Hawaii 1-2, CSU 0-3. Away Record: Hawaii 0-3, CSU 0-3. Neutral Record: Hawaii 0-0, CSU 1-0. Conference Record: Hawaii 0-3, CSU 0-3. Series Record: Colorado State leads, 11-9.
GAME NOTES: A pair of teams still waiting for their first Mountain West Conference wins of the season get together in Fort Collins on Saturday, as the Colorado State Rams entertain the Hawaii Warriors at Hughes Stadium.
Both teams are coming off bye weeks so they've had plenty of time to prepare for the other and hopefully healed some from various bumps and bruises accrued during the first half of the 2012 campaign.
As it stands, Hawaii and Colorado State, along with Wyoming, are tied for last place in the conference standings with records of 0-3. Neither one of these two units has won a true road game thus far and CSU has come up empty in three home dates. The Rams opened the season with promise as they dumped in-state rival Colorado in Denver by a score of 22-17, but since then the team has fallen in six straight, which means it is tied for the second-longest skid in the nation entering this week.
Back on Oct. 13, the Rams were beaten by San Diego State at Qualcomm Stadium in a 38-14 final.
Meanwhile, the Warriors also have just one victory on the season, but in their case it came against an opponent outside of the Football Bowl Subdivision in Lamar (54-2) back on Sept. 15 at home. More recently, Hawaii clashed with New Mexico at Aloha Stadium on Oct. 13 and was dealt a 35-23 setback, which means the team has not defeated another school from the FBS since taking down Tulane (35-23) last November. Hawaii has not topped a conference foe since claiming a narrow 16-14 decision over Idaho last Oct. 29 when both programs resided in the Western Athletic Conference.
The last time these two teams clashed, Hawaii barely showed up as it suffered an ugly 63-0 loss in 1997. As a result of that defeat, the Warriors trail in the all-time series by a count of 11-9.
Under the direction of new head coach Norm Chow, the Warriors don't look anything like they have in recent years when they were the powerhouse passing squad that everyone else was trying to slow down. Instead, this year Hawaii is going with Sean Schroeder at quarterback and the transition has been a gradual one for the new signal-caller out on the island. Schroeder has managed to complete 53.8 percent of his pass attempts for 180.7 ypg and eight touchdowns, but has also tossed five interceptions.
Keeping the Warriors from being prolific in the passing game again is the fact that not a single receiver has started all six games for the program and that has probably kept those skills players from becoming familiar with their quarterback's style.
Last year Hawaii ranked 113th in the country in rushing with 95.4 ypg and to this point in 2012 the numbers aren't all that much better with 106.7 ypg to rank 108th nationally. Will Gregory has given them a spark with 75.0 ypg on the ground, but with just two rushing touchdowns he is far from a break-away threat.
Defensively, the Warriors just aren't getting the job done, allowing a whopping 42.3 ppg to rank 118th in the country. Had the team not held Lamar to only a safety, they could easily be the weakest scoring defense in all of college football. One of the more frustrating aspects of the defense is the fact that they have forced just five turnovers in six games and that translates into the squad ranking 119th in the country with a turnover margin of minus-1.67 per game.
Going up against that weak Hawaii defense is a Rams group that has a host of question marks. Colorado State likes to advertise the fact that it is second in the conference and tied for 10th in the nation in red zone scoring at 91.7 percent, but it doesn't take much research to find out that those numbers are based on just 12 trips inside the 20-yard line over the course of seven games.
The more telling stats have the Rams scoring just 15.7 ppg this season which is last in the conference and 118th in the nation. Then again, you really can't get all over a team for a stat like that, considering they are down to their third-string quarterback.
Garrett Grayson is now on the shelf for the rest of the season with a shoulder injury and M.J. McPeek is questionable for this weekend with a shoulder issue of his own. If the latter is unable to go, that leaves Conner Smith as the starting signal-caller. Smith stepped in for McPeek in the second quarter against San Diego State and proceeded to convert his first 11 pass attempts, finishing 18-of-22 for 165 yards in the losing effort.
Not only is the passing attack in a state of flux, so is the run game which is producing just 99.7 ypg and has resulted in a mere three touchdowns on 227 attempts. The offensive line hasn't done the skills players any favors obviously, and at the moment the group is giving up 3.6 sacks per game with his the most in the conference and 116th in the country.
The defense for the Rams is slightly better than that of Hawaii, but still this game could come down to a single play which might sway the outcome. Expect the Warriors to have some luck on the mainland this weekend if they can apply enough pressure in the trenches.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Hawaii 24, Colorado State 17


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Mark-Anthony Turnageb. 1960
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At the age of 45, Mark-Anthony Turnage has yet to reach the mid-point of his career, but already he is one of the most internationally performed composers of his generation. Any attempts at this point to fix his exact position within the musical map inevitably tend to emphasise his connections with the music of previous generations of 20th-century composers rather than with that of his peers. What Turnage, born in 1960, does share with all the composers whose formative musical experiences belong to the 1970s, however, is a wide frame of stylistic reference, and in his distinctive case it was one that regarded elements from rock and jazz as just as valid starting points as any of the standard high-art models.
So from his earliest published works in the 1980s, Turnage incorporated elements from those popular musics into the style he was developing for himself. Alongside the influences of Britten and Stravinsky, Henze and his one-time teacher Oliver Knussen, Turnage found room for Miles Davies and Prince. That imprinted his melodic writing especially with its own, instantly identifiable inflections, gave his rhythms their special propulsive energy as well as lending an acerbic edge to his scoring that created a sound world in which wind instruments in general and the saxophone in particular played key roles. As his music has developed over the last two decades his fluency and flexibility, especially as an orchestral composer, have increased steadily, but those fingerprints of his style have always been detectable.
Those qualities have always been combined with a vivid dramatic gift, and it was no accident that Turnage first came to international attention with his opera Greek, commissioned by Hans Werner Henze for the Munich Biennale in 1987 and based on a play by Steven Berkoff. If that work marked the culmination of the first phase of Turnage's development, then the series of orchestral pieces which followed, all composed for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (whose composer in association he was from 1989-1992) were characteristic of the next period. Turnage was now integrating his stylistic sources more completely while, in the evening-long ensemble work Blood on the Floor, showing a new confidence to juxtapose the worlds of contemporary art music and jazz directly. This portrait of urban decay is scored for a jazz trio and large ensemble; several movements also include improvised sections.
In further collaborations with front-line instrumentalists like Dave Holland, John Scofield and Peter Erskine Turnage has continued to pursue his interest in jazz, while on the other hand showing an ever increasing command of large-scale musical forms whether the profound dramatic canvasses of his second full-length opera The Silver Tassie, based upon Sean O'Casey's play, or in the ever-growing series of pieces he written over recent years in response to commissions from orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic. Clearly word has got around that Turnage writes music orchestras find rewarding to play and to which audiences can respond immediately; it's a potent, attractive combination.
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Putin's Animal Farm
In today's Washington Post, Pamela Constable describes the scene in Crimea, and it reminds me of George Orwell's Animal Farm.
Government Infrastructure Is Inefficient Everywhere
An op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today indicates that Edwards' Law of Cost Overruns is an international standard. If a politician says that a project will cost $100 million, it will end up costing $200 million or more.
New York Times Op-ed on Infrastructure
My op-ed in today's New York Times has prompted numerous critical comments on theNYT website. Let me address some of them.
Harlem Tragedy and Infrastructure
The tragic gas explosion in Harlem will likely revive complaints that America is a pothole nation with falling-down bridges, and that we desperately need to boost government infrastructure spending. The reality is more complex.
Lessons from the New Transit Data
The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) argues that a 0.7 percent increase in annual transit ridership in 2013 is proof that Americans want more "investments" in transit–by which the group means more federal funding. However, a close look at the actual data reveals something entirely different.
American Society as Chessboard
One of my favorite Adam Smith passages is:
The Need for Discretionary Spending Restraint
The Obama administration released its 2015 budget this week. The budget shows federal debt held by the public falling from 74 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) this year to 69 percent by 2024. That reduction occurs even though entitlement and interest spending are projected to rise substantially as a percent of GDP.
More Taxes than Meet the Eye in Obama's Budget
Yesterday's budget from President Obama claimed to raise taxes by $650 billion, which would come in addition to the $650 billion in tax hikes in January 2013. However, it appears that the president wants much more money from our pocketbooks. The exact amount isn't entirely clear due to the games the Office of Management and Budget is playing with its various tables. But if the president had his way, more than $1 trillion in tax hikes would be coming.
Paul Ryan's Poverty Plan
The House Budget Committee chaired by Congressman Raul Ryan released a 204-page report on federal welfare programs Monday. It provides useful discussions of 92 programs that cost taxpayers $799 billion a year.
Nothing to Celebrate in Obama's Budget
President Obama released his fiscal year 2015 budget request today. Sadly, for those who support smart, sensible budgeting, the president's budget is nothing to celebrate. The budget increases spending and fails to tackle the main driver of our budget problem—entitlement spending. All deficit reduction included in the budget is from revenue increases, not spending cuts.


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I attempted this exercise yesterday and got absolutely blasted by a member, which I believe allowed people to not see my post.
I am looking for strong critique here, not personal attacks. If I am wrong, show me. I also realize that this could be written a lot clearer, so any suggestions would be appreciated as well. I can take the heat.
In my world, I have always attempted to assimilate all of my knowledge on subjects into one large behemoth group of knowledge. The only way to do something like that is to reduce my own beliefs down to their core principles. As I find inconsistencies, I have to reevaluate my beliefs, and rethink things through. SO I have been extremely drawn to the theory of relativity. Part of evaluating what we accept deals with taking it to extremes and seing if the theory still holds water. I have attempted to use relativity in the philosophical sense. I know it may sound crazy to some, but it is not the point. The point is, logically it works, or at least to me. Obviously, I have to take a few logical liberties to get to where I go, but please don't confuse me for a details person. In order to make this readable, I'll make jumps in the theory as needed. Please just judge the overall consideration. I have thought about this a great deal though, so I'd be happy to answer any question besides "Have you lost your mind?
I have always loved my own personal theory concerning aliens and relativity. I have always used it to demonstrate to people struggling with what they believe to show that in reality, we will never be quite sure about the existence of god, distant universes, etc.
If you think of an ant crawling on the floor, you may think about two things. How small that ant really is, and how fragile. But to that ant, he is anything but. He knows only that he can lift hundreds of times its weight, and it can hold its own with any of its known adversaries, except those that prey on ants. The ant is therefore limited in its reality to the perceptions it incurs. To an ant, he is large and capable of anything he needs to do. His reality is relative to his position in the grand scheme of things. It would not be a large jump to poster that ants could hypothetically consider humans as "natural disasters", or even gods. Everything is relative. Before you dismiss this idea, consider the movie ANTS itself, or any other cartoon involving very small animals. It would also be logical to assume that ants in North America have no idea that there exists millions of types of ants he has never seen before. No opportunity for any type of enlightenment in nature itself.
If you take that a step further, and perform the same type of analysis on something as small as a germ, you could do the same thing. So small it can't appeciate or even begin to comprehend the size of the millions of things around it, yet fully able to function within it's own percieved reality based on its relative place in existence. Think about it like this: If you took a germ and placed it in a petri dish that was sufficiently large enough to encompass the distance a germ could move within its life cycle, to a human, this glass is relatively small compared to the buildings we inhabit everyday, but to the germ, it is a new universe. To humans, the glass seems silky smooth. To the germ, it is a rather bumpy terrain. We are limited in our understanding of our reality by our relative relationships.
For this board, I'll just cut to the chase:
Using what we know about science, about reality, about time, and about relativity, is it not actually possible that the Earth and our universe is nothing more than a microscopic particle in an "alien" microscope? Could our entire existence be explained as a part of a much larger picture we can't wrap our minds around? Could it not be very possible that relatively, we are so small that we have created our own reality and therefore are limiting our own thought about the subjects? Our entire universe, just using standard scientific principles, could really be just a very tiny portion of the molecular makeup of of something so large we lack the ability to comprehend? Just like an ant or germ? Is it not possible that our universe relatively is just the molecular make up of a paperweight on another unknown species desk? If so, what does that say about us and what we believe in?
I hope this isn't summarily dismissed. I promise it all fits back in with the original conversation, it just is perhaps something many many people have never thought about seriously before. I would love to hear responses.


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Next summer you have the opportunity to spend four weeks conducting archaeological fieldwork in Israel. You can be part of an international team of scholars and students who will be excavating Tel Akko, an ancient site located on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Northern Israel. Students are housed on the campus of the Israeli Nautical Academy in the historic and culturally diverse city of Akko, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In the process you will learn about the rich history of the city, analyze ancient artifacts, study conservation techniques, and have possibly one of the best summer experiences of your life. There is also an opportunity to receive academic credit.
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- Who: Open to all students of the Claremont Colleges (including graduating seniors)
- When: June 30-July 27, 2013
- Where: Akko, Israel (just north of Haifa)
- How much: The program fee is $3300 (includes air conditioned lodging with internet connections and laundry service, all meals, excursions to Jerusalem, Caesarea, and the Galilee).
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The one thing WoW has done really poorly is rewards at level 60. Restricting epics to raids was a mistake in my opinion. For most of the game there was a decent balance between rewards for instances, and rewards for quests. However, at 60, the balance swings way too much towards instances. There are some questlines that are epic in scope, and really deserve epic rewards.
Here's my list of quests that deserved epic rewards:
1. Tirion Fordring questline
This is one of the best loved questlines in the game. It takes you across Eastern Plaguelands, to Stratholme, and to Hearthglen as you help Tirion Fordring seek redemption. It's a gorgeous questline, and the rewards are quite good, but if they were bumped up a notch, this quest would be perfect.
2. The Lich, Raj Frostwhisper questline
This quest takes you from Scholomance, to Stratholme, and back to Scholomance as you seek the key to defeating Raj Frostwhisper. It's quite long and involved, and very few people actually do the whole questline. I've actually gotten more whispers about my Warblade of Caer Darrow than any other piece of gear. By the time most people would have completed the questline, they've moved on to raiding instead.
3. Hero of the Fallen Horde questline
This one has you fighting in the Blasted Lands, seeking to destroy Razelikh the Defiler. I remember forging the Sword needed to defeat his Servants, and the questline culminates in an awesome battle atop the Defiler's Rise.
4. Dawn's Gambit questline
I'll be honest, I haven't even finished this questline yet. It's the one where you have to collect the eggs from Upper Blackrock Spire and then go to Scholomance and defeat Vectus and his students. I just don't feel like going back to UBRS.
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The Groovy Swing Console allows a user to enter and run Groovy scripts. This page documents the features of this user interface.
The Groovy Console:
- The Console has an input area and an output area.
- You type a Groovy script in the input area.
- When you select "Run" from the "Actions" menu, the console compiles the script and runs it.
- Anything that would normally be printed on System.out is printed in the output area.
- If the script returns a non-null result, that result is printed.
Running Scripts
Handy tips for running scripts:
- Ctrl+Enter and Ctrl+R are both shortcut keys for "Run Script".
- If you highight just part of the text in the input area, then Groovy runs just that text.
- The result of a script is the the value of the last expression executed.
- You can turn the System.out capture on and off by selecting "Capture System.out" from the "Actions" menu
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You can open any text file, edit it, run it (as a Groovy Script) and then save it again when you are finished.
- Select File -> Open (shortcut key ctrl+O) to open a file
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- Select File -> New File (shortcut key ctrl+Q) to start again with a blank
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- You can pop-up a gui inspector on the last (non-null) result by selecting "Inspect Last" from the "Actions" menu. The inspector is a convenient way to view lists and maps.
- The console remembers the last ten script runs. You can scroll back and forth through the history by selecting "Next" and "Previous" from the "Edit" menu. Ctrl-N and ctrl-P are convenient shortcut keys.
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The Java code for this is:
Once the console is launched, you can use the variable values in Groovy code.
An example of how to embed either the GroovyConsole or GroovyShell in a Spring Web application can be found at Embedding a Groovy Console in a Java Server Application


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A new report shows that the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine is one of the nation's leaders in training physicians with Hispanic backgrounds. With 17 Hispanic graduates in 2008, LECOM ranked ninth among all medical schools.
|Rachael Sanchez, DO, LECOM Bradenton is one of 17 Hispanic graduates from the Class of 2008.
According to the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine OME news, the Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education magazine recently released its rankings of top colleges awarding degrees to Hispanics in 2008. As part of its rankings, Hispanic Outlook looked at the numbers of first professional degrees awarded to Hispanics in a variety of academic programs.
Because the rankings are based on categories (and data) determined by the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), the schools awarding the most M.D. degrees to Hispanics are separated from the schools awarding the most D.O. degrees to Hispanics. However, AACOM worked with Hispanic Outlook to compile a list of the top-10 colleges awarding the most medical degrees (M.D. or D.O,) degrees to Hispanic students. Three Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, including LECOM, ranked in the top 10.
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DARKE COUNTY - One Darke County man sentenced Friday at the Darke County Courthouse for cutting a friend with a sword last year says he wants to turn his life around to have a better life.
"I wouldn't have gotten this far without God," said Chris Vanata, 27, of Greenville. The young man with the support of the Pleasant View Missionary Church of Greenville, family and friends at the sentencing showed much remorse for hurting his friend during an assault last fall.
Clutching a Bible, Vanata told the court that he has a job, is living with friends and checked himself into a drug rehabilitation program.
According to a filed complaint, Vanata caused harm to his friend, Joshua S. Day, a second degree felony, last November. Vanata's history includes charges of domestic violence, assault, DUIs, disorderly conduct, alcohol and drug abuse, and traffic offenses.
Sentencing includes serving 30 days with work release, maintaining employment and proof of earnings, entering substance programming, mental health counseling, no use of alcohol and illegal drugs, 100 hours of community service and paying court costs.
Defense Attorney R. Kelly Ormsby III said that the victim in the assault case did not want to see that his friend was imprisoned and that Vanata has mental health and alcohol issues when the assault happened and preferred that he get help and do community service.
Defense Attorney Paul Wagner said Vanata made several changes like working with Darke County Recovery Services, where he is still doing it and doing well.
"The other thing he's done and we don't see very often, is he has changed his peer group pretty radically," Wagner said. "He has support here today from the Missionary Church, pastor and several friends. He has been pretty steadfast in maintaining a relationship with them and it's not sketchy. … It shows a change in his life, more than just lip service."
Vanata added that he feels horrible about the situation and is regretful.
"I can't take it back. If I could go back and change it I would," Vanata added, saying he wants his life to get better, change and move forward.
Scott Hobbs, an elder at the Missionary Church told the judge that Vanata has done community service and the Breaking Free by Neil Anderson program, has been making huge changes, is diligent in being in church, accepting Christ and seeing changes in his family.
"We don't see this very often," said Judge Hein. There's not a lot of support for 20 to 30-years-old guys in the streets. To an extent you guys [Vanata's supporters] being here is an encouragement. People can't go through life alone especially with bad influences, and the influences now are a lot more negative than 30 years ago. In a week, it could go from good to bad if you let your guard down. This is a community control or local sanction, Hein explained.
"In the end Mr. Vanata, you own the responsibility to improve," Hein said.
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Spring is an open-source framework created to address the complexity of Java enterprise application development. One of Spring's goals is to help developers write simple, testable and loosely coupled systems while reducing the amount of scaffolding code required. In this respect, Groovy has a common goal. So, for simple systems, Groovy alone may be sufficient for your needs. However, as your system grows in size and complexity, and especially in hybrid Java/Groovy environments, you might find Spring's facilities provide great value to your Groovy system development.
Here we look at using Spring's Bean Factory mechanisms within Groovy. These facilities allow beans to be managed within a Spring container. The beans are normally Java objects, but since Groovy objects are Java objects, Spring can just as easily manage Groovy objects for you. In particular, in mixed Java/Groovy environments, you can leverage any existing domain objects or services already have defined in your Spring wiring from the Java part of your application. You can immediately start using those within your Groovy scripts and code, allowing a great mix of strongly-typed Java domain objects and dynamically typed Groovy code.
Let's start by exploring a simple calculator application.
Bare Bones Approach
Suppose we have the following implementation class:
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class CalcImpl { def doAdd(x, y) { x + y } }
We can make use of that class from a script as follows:
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import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.* def configure(factory) { def bd = new RootBeanDefinition(CalcImpl) factory.registerBeanDefinition('calcBean', bd) } def factory = new DefaultListableBeanFactory() configure(factory) def calc = factory.getBean('calcBean') println calc.doAdd(3, 4) // => 7
This script relies on no external wiring files. Everything is configured in the script itself. If we wish to alter our system at a later time, we simply alter the configuration inside the
configure() method. In the Java world, this wouldn't be very flexible, but in the Groovy world, this script may be executed from source code (even dynamically loaded when it changes) so altering the configuration doesn't necessarily require a new build.
Classical Spring Approach
Probably the most common way to use Spring is to use an XML wiring file. As systems grow larger, wiring files allow configuration to be centralised in easy to change 'groupings' of beans. Let's assume our calculator needs to eventually be expanded to have additional functionality. An approach to handling complexity as the system grows is to delegate functionality off to other components. Here is how we might code up an adder component:
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class AdderImpl { def add(x, y) { x + y } }
Then, applying the delegate design pattern we mentioned earlier would result in the following refactored calculator:
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class CalcImpl2 { def AdderImpl adder def doAdd(x, y) { adder.add(x, y) } }
To capture our software system configuration, we will use an XML wiring file (we have two beans):
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd"> <bean id="calcBean" class="CalcImpl2" autowire="byType"/> <bean class="AdderImpl"/> </beans>
Now, our script code looks like:
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import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext def ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext('calcbeans.xml') def calc = ctx.getBean('calcBean') println calc.doAdd(3, 4) // => 7
Annotation Approach
If we wish, we can remove the need for an XML file by using annotations. Note that we need to think carefully before using this approach extensively in a large system for two reasons. Firstly, we are more tightly coupling our system to Spring. Secondly, we are associating configuration and deployment information with our source code. Perhaps separating those concerns will have enormous benefits for large systems. The good news is that Spring lets you take on board just those annotations that you are happy to use.
Here is how we might code up our adder component:
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import org.springframework.stereotype.Component @Component class AdderImpl { def add(x, y) { x + y } }
Here is our modified calculator:
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import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired import org.springframework.stereotype.Component @Component class CalcImpl3 { @Autowired private AdderImpl adder def doAdd(x, y) { adder.add(x, y) } }
And here is our script code (note no XML file is required):
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import org.springframework.context.support.GenericApplicationContext import org.springframework.context.annotation.ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner def ctx = new GenericApplicationContext() new ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner(ctx).scan('') // scan root package for components ctx.refresh() def calc = ctx.getBean('calcImpl3') println calc.doAdd(3, 4) // => 7
This example uses features in Spring 2.1 (currently at a Milestone release) and Groovy 1.1 (currently in beta release) on a Java 5 or greater JVM.
BeanBuilder Approach
We can also use the BeanBuilder from Grails to avoid writing an XML file. It will look something like this (after adding the latest Grails jar to your classpath):
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def bb = new grails.spring.BeanBuilder() bb.beans { adder(AdderImpl) calcBean(CalcImpl2) { delegate.adder = adder } // need to use delegate may change } def ctx = bb.createApplicationContext() def calc = ctx.getBean('calcBean') println calc.doAdd(3, 4) // => 7
Further Information
- The Spring Example in Groovy and JMX
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