Question about wiring Time Capsule

Just bought a 2 TB Time Capsule but haven't hooked it up.
Currently, I'm using an old D-link wireless router that's hooked up with the cable going first into the router, then out to my primary iMac. Our other two computers connect to it wirelessly
With Time Capsule, should I hook it up to my iMac in this same manner, or would it be better just to let it communicate wirelessly?
Or does it even make a difference?

Connecting your iMac wirelessly vs by ehternet cable?
It shouldn't make any difference either way, it's up to your preferences and desires.

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Some questions about a Time Capsule

Hi!!
I just have a few questions about a Time Capsule, but first let me explain the backgroud to my questions.
I live in a 2 floor house(including a basement) and my bedroom is downstairs. My parents currently have a desktop PC connected to our wireless router and our printer. Me and my step-father both have 13 inch MacBook Pros, and he uses the Mac like a basic computer, so the equipment connected to our PC is good for him. I, on the other hand, use my Mac, iPad and iPhone to their fullest potential. I am a SUPER MEGA NERD when it comes to computers, so I plan on making my bedroom an amazing office at the same time. So I want an AirPrint Enabled printer in my bedroom (Under 100$$) along with a Time Capsule to back up my information, because everyday I look around in the backdoor of my Mac alot, and if I jack anything up (And I cant handle the problem) I would like to restore my Mac to a previous version. So here are my questions:
1) My bedroom is right underneath our router, so i get GREAT Wi-Fi in my room. If I get a Time Capsule, can I use it in my room to extend my Wi-Fi, and how would that work? Will it extend my wifi under the same name, because I would like my own Wi-Fi (Titled to what I want with my own password)
2) If I have to create a NEW Wi-Fi network, how would I do that?
3) Would I need to connect my new printer directly to my ROUTER, or could I connect it to the TIME CAPSULE?
If you don't understand what I'm trying to ask (Even though I feel like it's self-explanatory)
ONE question about the PRINTER: Do any of you have any recommendations for an AirPrint Enabled printer under 100$? Even under-150$ would be okay.
THANKS FOR ANY HELP!!!!

everyday I look around in the backdoor of my Mac alot, and if I jack anything up (And I cant handle the problem) I would like to restore my Mac to a previous version. So here are my questions:
Don't just depend on TM.. use a disk image type utility.. either one of the Mac tools, SuperDuper, CCC, Chronosync or even a linux boot cd (if you have a cd/dvd drive still or via usb can boot) a great tool is Clonezilla.. it will do basically any computer, Mac, Linux, Windows.. and since it boots into its own OS can restore a computer in a flash. Then you can add the incremental changes from TM.
1) My bedroom is right underneath our router, so i get GREAT Wi-Fi in my room. If I get a Time Capsule, can I use it in my room to extend my Wi-Fi, and how would that work? Will it extend my wifi under the same name, because I would like my own Wi-Fi (Titled to what I want with my own password)
Actually I am surprised you get good wireless as usually directly above or below a router is often the worst spot. Time Capsule cannot extend the wireless of any other router than Apple.. it is a special system and only Apple can join the club. It has bad effect though, if you set the TC to extend wireless it turns off ethernet ports.. which is hugely dumb.
The best arrangement is ethernet to the upstairs.. or EOP adapters. If not then a wireless router that matches the existing unit will generally be better than mixing apple and non-apple.
2) If I have to create a NEW Wi-Fi network, how would I do that?
3) Would I need to connect my new printer directly to my ROUTER, or could I connect it to the TIME CAPSULE?
You create a new wireless network by selecting manually the wireless channel and use different wireless name, ssid and security. There are 3 available channels on 2.4ghz.. your existing router will use one or two.. depending on if the setting is 20mhz or 40mhz.. so you need to manually set everything and not use auto.
TC is slow on 2.4ghz cf 5ghz and there are many more channels at 5ghz but not everything can use it.. iphone for instance is 2.4ghz only . whereas ipad can use 5ghz.. most full computers now can use 5ghz.
Buy a wireless network printer. Or alternatively an ethernet network would be also ok but now are more expensive than wireless ones. Network printers are not much more than straight USB and work much better.
I do not use airprint so have nothing to offer.. find the best HP model in your budget.. but others may have had more experience.. I use ethernet connected b/w laser business type HP.. they work great.. but airprint is too recent an innovation for me.

Question about the Time Capsule as an external hard drive...

i know this might be a kind of dumb question, but does the time capsule also work as an external hard drive where i would be able to just drag and save whichever files i want...or does it only save files through backing up in time machine??? thank you in advance

You don't need to consider FAT32 formatting for PC access.
The closet thing to a "format" of the TC disk is via "erase" command in the Airport Utility. There's no consideration of truly formatting or in what format the disk would be laid out. For the USB attached drive the same applies when it is attached to the TC, but of course it can be formatted when directly attached to a PC or Mac.
It is, in fact, often recommended that a USB attached drive be formatted as HFS+.
The fact that the drive (either the TC drive or a USB attached drive) are accessed via network protocols as a network disk insulates the useing machine from the physical drive format details to a large degree.
I have a TC with a USB attached drive. Both the TC drive and the USB attached drive are formatted as HFS+ but appear on Windows XP machines as:
Type: Network Drive
File system: FAT32
There has been a lot of discussion of this in this forum:
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Question on hooking time capsule up.

I am looking to buy a time capsule, but first need to know a couple things, so anyone who could help me I would gladly appreciate it. First question: I currently have a modem and a wireless router hooked up at my house, which runs fine. I was just wondering if the time capsule will detect the wireless router without being hooked up to the modem or router by a wire/chord? I'm just looking to use the time capsule for the wireless hard drive purpose and that is it, I don't need to set up a new network or anything. I have broken many portable hard drives because they were hooked in my laptop and without thinking picked up and moved my laptop and the portable falls and hits the ground. I want the time capsule because of no chords and it will remain in one place.

I guess, I should just call apple. Don't know who to trust.
Please call Apple. They will vouch for me. Level 9 might be a clue.
TeHPwN has a way to go........about 8 years.

Newbie question here on Time Capsule

Hello Everyone
I searched the forum for this, but I couldn't find it so I will ask it here. I recently started thinking of getting a time capsule for my iMac. But here is my question. From what I understand it is a router as well. I already have a router (NetGear WNR834B v2) connected to my broadband. Is it possible to just have the time capsule connect to my current wireless network? Or would I be forced to trash my current router and just use the Capsule? I am not looking to extend the range of my wireless router, the time capsule will be in the same room as my router at any rate, I just dont want to have to run wires all over my room! Any help or guidance would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
Jeremy

Hello holepunch. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
i have a pc & a mac, the pc has the modem & router hooked up to it & my mac picks it up wirelessly. i have bought a time capsule and am wondering, does it replace my existing router? or do i hook it up to the router and then to the pc?
You actually have several options and will really depend on what you are trying to accomplish with your network. I assume that your PC is wired-only and the iMac can either be wired or wireless ... correct? Will both computers be in the same location? Is the current modem & router co-located with the computers?
What would you like the Time Capsule (TC) to do? Just provide a destination for Time Machine backups? ... or you would like to use it as a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device? ... or both?
Since your post is similar but different than the OP's, I suggest that you start a new post and describe your current network with greater details, like the make/model of all of your network devices, and what you will like to do with the TC. Thanks!

Wired Time Capsule is loosing connection with my 1 gigabit connected MacPro

I have MacPro connected with my Time Capsule 1TB disk.
MacPro is connected with Cat 6 50 feet cable so a 1 gigabit wired connection.
before i had a Netgear GS 608v2 Switch in between. But I removed that to see if that would solve my issue.
But the issue has now happened 6 times now:
I start to backup and after a while the Time Capsule hard disk disconnects (the internet keeps on working fine) because i have an an audio streaming playing at the same time.
I have MacOS 10.5.2 and everything is updated to latest versions . My Macmini G4 has been copied fine so far. But my MacPro keeps on failing.
In my system.log I get following errors:
Apr 13 16:00:44 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: doing reconnect on /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1
Apr 13 16:00:44 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect to the server /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1
Apr 13 16:00:50 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_Reconnect: posting to KEA EINPROGRESS for /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1
Apr 13 16:00:50 Quad-Raid KernelEventAgent[98]: tid 00000000 received VQ_NOTRESP event (1)
Apr 13 16:00:50 Quad-Raid KernelEventAgent[98]: tid 00000000 type 'afpfs', mounted on '/Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1', from 'afp_0TSQUm0Xl2BJ00mmYF0Pyetl-1.2e00000a', not responding
Apr 13 16:00:50 Quad-Raid KernelEventAgent[98]: tid 00000000 found 1 filesystem(s) with problem(s)
Apr 13 16:00:50 Quad-Raid loginwindow[97]: 1 server now unresponsive
Apr 13 16:00:55 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect on /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1 failed 51.
Apr 13 16:00:55 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect to the server /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1
Apr 13 16:00:59 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect on /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1 failed 51.
Apr 13 16:00:59 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: sleep for 1 seconds and then try again
Apr 13 16:01:00 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect to the server /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1
Apr 13 16:01:04 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect on /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1 failed 51.
Apr 13 16:01:04 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: sleep for 2 seconds and then try again
Apr 13 16:01:06 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect to the server /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1
Apr 13 16:01:09 Quad-Raid dnsupdate[113]: Caching external address
Apr 13 16:01:20 Quad-Raid loginwindow[97]: 1 server now unresponsive
Apr 13 16:01:41 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect on /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1 failed 51.
Apr 13 16:01:41 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect to the server /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1
Apr 13 16:02:09 Quad-Raid dnsupdate[113]: Caching external address
Apr 13 16:02:16 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect on /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1 failed 51.
Apr 13 16:02:16 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect to the server /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1
Apr 13 16:02:51 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect on /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1 failed 51.
Apr 13 16:02:51 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect to the server /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1

Sorry but this doesn't help, because this article is talking about streaming to Airport Airtunes, but my problem is that Time Machine stops backing up after a while because the Time Capsule isn't connected anymore. Because the Time Capsule is disconnected:
Here just my 8th attempt to backup with Time Machine:
Apr 13 20:52:23 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect on /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1 failed 60.
Apr 13 20:52:23 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect to the server /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1
Apr 13 20:53:10 Quad-Raid dnsupdate[113]: Caching external address
Apr 13 20:53:38 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect on /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1 failed 60.
Apr 13 20:53:38 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect to the server /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1
Apr 13 20:54:10 Quad-Raid dnsupdate[113]: Caching external address
Apr 13 20:54:53 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect on /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1 failed 60.
Apr 13 20:54:53 Quad-Raid KernelEventAgent[98]: tid 00000000 received VQ_DEAD event (32)
Apr 13 20:54:53 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: max reconnect time reached 646 > 600 /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1
Apr 13 20:54:53 Quad-Raid KernelEventAgent[98]: tid 00000000 type 'afpfs', mounted on '/Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1', from 'afp_0TSQUm0Xl2BJ00mmYF0Pyetl-1.2e00000c', dead
Apr 13 20:54:53 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: posting to KEA to unmount /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1
Apr 13 20:54:53 Quad-Raid KernelEventAgent[98]: tid 00000000 found 1 filesystem(s) with problem(s)
Apr 13 20:54:53 Quad-Raid kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount: /Volumes/MVO's Time Capsule-1, flags 524288, pid 98

I have replaced my old Mac Mini with new one. What should I do about my Time Capsule?

With the old Mac Mini (2009 model) I used Time Machine and a Time Capsule to back up everything on the Mac Mini itself and on external hard drive I added when I needed more storage space. I've replaced the old Mac Mini with a 2011 model, and migrated the contents of the old one to the new one from Time Machine.
I'm now trying to figure out what I should do to my Time Capsule and/or Time Machine to make backups going forward of the same content, now on my new Mac Mini and same external hard drive.
When I go into Time Machine, it does not seem to recognise the items on the external hard drive as ones that I can backup (or not, as there were some items there that I did not and do not wish to backup to Time Capsule) through the new Mac Mini.
I am uncertain too whether the Time Machine/Time Capsule will recognise the items of my old Mac Mini as the same ones that are now on my new Mac Mini and save changes there, or whether it will try to save all over again all the same items, as they are now on a different computer.
My inclination is to clear out the contents of the Time Capsule now and start all over again.
I have looked through information provided by Apple but not found answers to my questions.

The situation concerning the hard drive is complicated. It is not included in the list of Excluded Items.
If the drive is not "Excluded", then it must be included. That is the way that Apple's software works.
But, nor am I given the option to select it or any of the items in it for adding to the list of Excluded Items.
If you want to add an item to the list of Excluded items, click the + button at the bottom of the Excluded list, then navigate to select the drive to add it. Once the drive has been added, you can go back in and select the items.
When I go into the exclude from backup area and select the hard drive, it and the items in it appear in dimmed form, but I cannot select them.
Sorry, I do not understand what you are trying to say here.
What I want to do, but cannot, is what I did before, select one of the items in it not to be backed up and leave the rest to be backed up
I have no idea how you were able to do this. As long as I can remember, Time Machine will not allow you to pick and choose items on a drive to be backed up or excluded. Your option is to have the entire drive backed up, or the entire drive to not be backed up.
have not seen the 'Quick Erase' option.
You would use AirPort Utility to erase the Time Capsule drive. Open AirPort Utillty and click the Disks tab at the top of the screen. Then, click Erase Disk. The Quick Erase option will appear.

From Nabil Houlika Germany. Please help me by answering the following questions. The Time Capsule suddenly went dead. What should I do? Is there a way to put it "ON" again??

Yesterday the time capsule light went off. All efforts to put it on again failed. All electric connections are in good order and working perfectly. Please help me.

Hi again,
I called them this morning. Admits my allergies and sneezing I was able to talk to them.
They will replace it with basically no questions asked.
I guess also having a MBP under AppleCare also helped too as the case is registered under that.
They gave me a few options.
The could take my credit card number as insurance and send me a new one and them I send them my dead one back, or I could take it into an Apple Store for a replacement there. The problem is that I have data on there that I want to maintain, so they said take it to the Apple Store or an Apple Service provider and they would handle the transfer.
I don't have an Apple Store in my city, but have a Service Provider that I know that could do the transfer for me, but I kinda want to do it at the Apple Store because maybe then they would give me a new one instead of another w year tombstone.
So I need to weigh my options.
I'll let you know further what happens.
P.S. my serial number was not in the range listed, but that didn't seem to make a difference. I think the key is to be courteous, respectful and friendly.

Encryption Questions: FileVault 2, Time Capsule, 1Password

Hello...Newbie here. I have FileVault 2 turned on and Time Machine backs up to Time Capsule.
When I'm logged in, does this mean all my data is unencrypted? If so, does that mean my Time Machine backups are unencrypted on Time Capsule which cannot be encrypted?
Since FileVault is on, does this mean encrypted 1Password info is then unencrypted when it's backed up on Time Capsule?
Any info is appreciated.

Something else to keep in mind here:
I recently went about upgrading my MBP to a SSD. I have Lion and I'm using File Vault 2 because I handle medical data and HIPAA states that I have to... I'm also using Time Machine (it's not a Time Capsule, it's a Netgear ReadyNAS but it works the same way). The Time Machine sparsebundle is not encrypted.
So, to do the switch, I pulled the encrypted HD out of my MBP and put in the SSD. I then booted from a Snow Leopard DVD and went about the 'Restore from Time Machine' route. I was able to find the drive, hook in to the TM sparsebundle and do the restore.
Once the restore was finished and had rebooted it behaved very strangely, apps crashed, status bar didn't seem to load correctly, Finder crashed constantly, the machine was SLOWER. Not good. I figured it was a bum drive so I got another one (same brand, model, etc...). Another restore with the same results.
NOTE: I also tried doing a fresh install of Snow Leopard with the intent of upgrading to Lion right away and pulling my files back from TM but I couldn't even install a fresh install of Snow Leopard. I've since learned that not every SSD will work in every system.
Before returning the drives I wanted to wipe them both clean so I put one of them in to an enclosure I have and plugged it in. I was shocked (although perhaps I shouldn't have been) to see that nothing on the drive was encrypted. I could access every file on the file system with out an issue.
I had assumed that if I encrypted the drive and then made a TM backup that a restore would create an exact copy of the old drive, including encryption.
In my case it appears that the Kingston drives I was trying to use are not compatible. I've since returned them both (both wiped clean) and ordered a drive from Crucial which, I'm told, will be compatible. But in the back of my mind I'm left wondering if the Crucial drive will have the same sorts of issues and if I'm really just left with the single choice of building the drive from scratch and then bringing my data back piece by piece.
One additional note of interest: You can create an encrypted sparsebundle and use that in Time Capsule (or some other NAS like mine) very easily and it should work just fine.
So, what's my point here? Well, there are two things:
1) Make sure you get a SSD that's compatible with your system as they're not all the same.
2) If you are using FileVault 2 and backing up using TM (regardless of whether you have encrypted the sparsebundle or not) you might want to try restoring to see how/if it works. It may simply be that you can't just restore from TM if you have an encrypted HD.
Honestly, it's not often (in fact it's very rare) that I find myself in a position when I need to restore from TM like this so maybe doing a clean install each time isn't such a huge deal but still it would be nice if it worked as advertised OR these sorts of issues were thought through and addressed.

Wiring Time Capsule with Ethernet

I have an iMac7,1 running 10.6.4, fully updated. I have Time capsule wired by ethernet from my cable modem, running a wireless network in my home. Works well but I want faster speeds associated with hardwired ethernet connection. I plugged ethernet cable into TC and back of Mac but network doesn't recognize it. Do I have to connect my mac directly to the cable modem or what? Can I not connect TC directly to mac via ethernet? What am I doing wrong? I also have an airport express in the living room which is a bridge to my blue ray so I can stream netflix and pandora. I would like to run an ethernet to this also as sometimes it slows down while watching netflix streaming. Any suggestions?

Hello bmwbiker. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Just to make sure you have the Time Capsule (TC) properly wired in our current network configuration, is something like the following:
Modem > Ethernet cable > WAN port (circle-of-dots) TC LAN port (opposing arrows) > Ethernet cable > Mac
Is this correct?
If so, did you just recently add the TC to your network configuration? That is, just prior to this, did you have the Mac connected directly to the Modem?

Few questions about Oracle Times ten

Moved to Few questions about Oracle Timesten
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Moved to right place... timesten

Hi,
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Easy question about install time

Hello,
I have been having a lot of problems with my MacBook and after posting on the forums it seems a re-install might help. This is my firt time doing a wipe/install so I backed up my files and booted from my Tiger install DVD and did a wipe/install and I am staring at in installing right now. It seems to be taking forever! It has been going for about 2 hours now and is about 1/3 of the way finished and says it has 3 hours 43 minutes to go. Is it supposed to take this long?

Hi,
I haven't installed Tiger on an Intel Mac but have installed Jaguar, Panther and Tiger a number of times on PPC Macs. It never took more than 30 minutes to complete.
I would suggest you let the installation run its course and then see how the computer is working.
It might be that your HD needed repairing... did you check it with disk utility before starting the installation ?
One more thing... after the first boot (where you set up accounts,etc) you should boot from the install DVD check the disk with disk utility and repair if necessary.
S

Question about Run-Time Shortcut Menus example

I am looking at the Run-Time Shortcut Menus.vi that ships with LabVIEW2011. There is an event case "Test List":Mouse Down that does nothing but generate a Val(Sgnl) event for the "Test List" control if the right mouse button was pressed. There is no value change event for that control.
Is there an obscure reason to do that? One thing I have learned about many of the examples is not to strictly use them as examples.
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LabVIEW 2012
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Nevermind - I found the obscure reason. Even though there is not a value change event, generating the value change event is required to change the value on right-click.
At least NI could have documented this in the example
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Quick question about using Time Machine on iMac FireWire external

I have been backing up my MacBook using Time Machine via a USB external hard drive that is connected to my iMac. Now when I look at the Time Machine setting in my MacBook is says that the MacBook NEEDS to be plugged in in order for the next backup to occur. This is no issue for me, but I am wondering if this has always been the case. It may have been something that I overlooked, but I do not remember seeing that message when using Time Machine over my network on my MacBook before.

Yes, that's correct. TM will not backup a laptop while it's operating only on battery unless you upgrade to 10.5.3. This latest version provides a TM option to run backups when the computer is on battery power.
It's inadvisable to run a backup while on battery power because if the battery goes dead your backup could become corrupted. At the very least files may not get backed up as expected.

Question about compile-time legality rules for cast conversion

Hi, In the rules which explain compile-time legality for cast conversion, it is often mentioned the following scenario in the cast conversion of a compile-time type S to a compile-time type T:
if S is a class type then:
if T is a class type then either |S| <: |T| or |T| <: |S| or a compile time error occurs. Furthermore, if there exist a supertype X of T and a supertype Y of S such that X and Y are provably distinct parameterized types and that the erasures of X and Y are the same, a compile-time error occurs.
As regards the quote in bold, I imagine the following scenario:
1) S <: T and extends Y
2) Y<T1...Tn>
3) X<T1..Tn>
4) T extends X
Does the above represents a supertype X of T and a supertype Y of S such that X and Y are provenly distinct parameterized types? If that holds, what does it mean that the erasure of X and Y is the same?

Declarative programing has all but gone the way of
the doe doe because...
1: It is not flexible (It is extremely difficult to
change a complex system in a predetermined way)isn't this the "expert system" model?
2: It lengthens the development cycle (see item 1)
3: It normally forces the developer to add many
things to there code to get things to work, that have
nothing to do with the intent of the code.more things? the declarations or the declaration processing?
In its defense (I like a declarative model but, do
not like being forced into one)...not advocating a forced change in Java
1: It increases code safety.
2: It can shorten the development cycle, in certain
circumstances (especially if it is not overused),
because it can greatly increase the readability of
code.
3: It follows many best practices (although this is
also possible in a Non-Declarative model).as for best practices what I'd like to see are declarative design patterns, Adapter, Singleton, Factory, Delegate, Strategy, Interpreter, Proxy, Visitor
too often the design intent is lost in an implementation or design details can only be deduced by class/field/method names, comments, and accompanying docs
So, if everyone had unlimited time, and an unlimited
budget, yes declaritive is the way to go. Since that
is not the case, we filtered out 99% of what it gave
us, made sure the stuff that was getting in the way
was removed, and what do you have???
You guessed it OOA&D.
Now having said that should we be more declarative? I
think so, but I will tell you now, REQUIRING
declarative elements in code is a sure fire way to
get the majority of development groups to drop the
language (and I think Java as it stands currently CAN
be declarative, so if you have one of those unlimited
budgets, go for it!).no need to require it
I believe given good (reusable) declarative options, on top of OOP, will become the chosen approach
reusable design declarations would lessen overall cost and increase readability

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