On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 13:48, Adam Murdoch wrote:
> One problem is that it doesn't take long before you hit avalon's enormous
> scope. It's difficult (impossible?) to come up with a useful set of
> mandatory services that will span this scope. Even the canonical
> getHomeDir() example is a problem for lightweight containers with no such
> concept, or tightly sandboxed containers that don't (or can't) allow file
> system access.
The one common one is getName().
> Honestly, MailetContext and ServletContext were always just noise. There's
> nothing in common between these and framework's Context except the word
> 'Context' in their names, and the fact that they each deliver a subset of
> the resources used by components.
I dunno. They are precisely the sort of things I draw on when thinking about
it :)
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Peter Donald
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