On Saturday 15 June 2002 11:29 am, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > Personally I don't like contexts, they smell of "global variables" to me.
They are, but only in the context of a container :) > Aren't ComponentManagers(nowLocators) doing a similar thing (ie giving a > class based on a name-role)? Not exactly. For some examples, in Phoenix a block is actually passed an instance of a BlockContext, from which a block can determine base directory that the block is running in as well as its configured name. It is my understanding that the Context was designed for the passage of runtime information from the container to components. -pete -- peter royal -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
