Berin Loritsch wrote:
>>From: Nicola Ken Barozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>
>>
>>Berin Loritsch wrote:
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>>>I am very happy with the Context package.
>>
>>Hmmm...
>>
>>Personally I don't like contexts, they smell of "global
>>variables" to me.
>
>
> And that is one of their uses. A way of sharing contextual
> information with a large group of components.
>
> That beats repeating config information in several locations.
Like local variables do.
But can be a very delicate point.
>>Aren't ComponentManagers(nowLocators) doing a similar thing
>>(ie giving a
>>class based on a name-role)?
>
>
> That's a different concern. Don't confuse them.
Which in fact happens.
On James they are talking about getting a Logger from a Context :-S
>>Also, look at the Cocoon Context: it's a real PITA to understand that
>>you need to get a context from a context...
>
> Please take off your Cocoon hat. That's a Cocoon decision, not an
> Avalon one.
;-P
What I mean is that if the major Avalon user took this decision,
I guess there is something wrong with it.
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