Berin Loritsch wrote:
I would like to propose set of tiered containers and the appropriate complianceYou would see me happy on this only if each container used the underlying one.
test suites. The approach requires all of us to work together (building community
as Stefano wants), and satisfies the real need for more than one container in
Avalon. It would work something like this:
1) Micro Container--a Tweety like container that can operate in J2ME. It requires
that only threadsafe components be used because it is unlikely that multithreading
will be used in that environment. It is severly limited, and identifies the minimum
requirements for Avalon compliance.
2) Standard Container--the result of merging Merlin and Fortress. It will be able to
support embedding in a larger container (like J2EE) as well as the more robust
component handling (pooling, thread-local, etc.).
3) Server Container--Phoenix. It identifies the requirements for a root level container
that hosts server applications. It will not be embeddable because it is the kernel.
I think that this approach will satisfy the community needs as well as the needs for
different types of containers. It is also important to focus on container/component
contracts in each of these--all the while providing a reasonable default implementation.
That is: Merlin's Fortress is based on Tweety and Phoenix is based on Merlin's Fortress (can we come up with a better name for this, please?)
That would solve all my concerns and would force people to work together and create a community because they would share not only the syntax and the semantics but also the behavior. And would force all containers to keep in synch.
[note that this reflects the inheritance model of OOP which this very community seems to have forgotten since Avalon doesn't make extensive use of it]
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Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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