Trying to follow what's going on here it seems to me that Stephen wants
an ObjectConfiguration under the name Context. To me a context is a
frame of reference -- a description of how the world stands at an exact
point in time.
For example HttpRequest as a Servlet parameter. Wherein a specific
request is encapsulated and passed in to a method for processing. It
describes the who (session), what (data), where (path), why (inferred),
when (inferred), and how (method, i.e. GET/POST...).
Perhaps I'm missing the whole point here, but, IMHO, semantically
speaking an ObjectConfiguration is not a Context.
Since I've only been thinking of components as services which are
configured and then utilized I can only see a limited case where being
able to contextualize a component would make any sense. If a component
is single-threaded then the following lifecycle would make sense to me:
lookup
setContext (recontextualizing)
myMethod
release
If this is the case then why would setting a context be relevant to
Avalon at all? The caller would have specific knowledge that the
component supported contexts. The only exception I see would be
automatically recontextualizing a component based on metadata, but that
just seems plain convoluted.
Corey
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 17:30, Leo Sutic wrote:
> Stephen,
>
> I'm all for your approach - it certainly is better than what we have
> now.
>
> But I would like to solve the cases where the context entry is either
>
> + a value (like a java.io.File) provided by the container
>
> + an interface to the container (should be accessed via serviceManager
> probably)
>
> + something that changes during runtime (a Recontextualizable
> component) and
> that has new values depending on runtime parameters completely
> independent
> of application profile, such as performance data.
>
> /LS
>
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