On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:47, Adam Rossi wrote:
> what was
> the typical avalon way of initializing component runtime values? The
> lazy way, or the context method that you described, or something
> different?
The context was the way Avalon was designed to provide the component with
runtime values.
However some people would "blend" the runtime values in with the
configuration/parameters objects. Think of it in a similar way to how ant
operates. Consider an input xml fragment
<config>
<param key="name" value="some name"/>
<param key="time" value="${now}"/>
</config>
What people would do is expand the ${now} variable into the "now" runtime
variable. So the component would end up being passed
<config>
<param key="name" value="some name"/>
<param key="time" value="14:03 Oct 20th 2002"/>
</config>
as part of configuration. This is one thing that a lot of people have
requested we add in and there is current work underway to enable just that
but until such infrstructure gets into place I would recomend you use the
Context for runtime values.
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