[CAUSEWAY-2469] Remove Annotations ViewModel, ViewModelLayout and Mixin

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0-M5
• Component/s: Applib (programming model)
• Assignee: Andi Huber
• Reporter: Andi Huber
• Created: 26/Nov/20 12:55
• Updated: 27/Nov/20 12:49
• Resolved: 27/Nov/20 12:49

Description

ViewModel, ViewModelLayout and Mixin are aliases already covered by DomainObject and DomainObjectLayout.

And for @DomainObject(nature=...), as we are now more precise on the term "entity", we should remove EXTERNAL_ENTITY and INMEMORY_ENTITY.

With support for meta annotations, users should be able to create their own drop in replacements. eg.

@Inherited
@Target({ ElementType.TYPE })
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@DomainObject(nature=MIXIN, mixinMethod="act")
public @interface Mixin {
}