Belaran,
On 5/20/05, belaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone !
>
> First of all i want to apologize for the rather long post...
>
> I'm working on HiveMind and i try to figure out the possibilities of
> the framework. I've been playing with most of its features and i get
> the point for most of them. However, i've two question :
>
> 1) When HiveMind call your SymbolSource it's just call the method
> 'valueForSymbol(String symbol)' then the user has to code it's own
> implementation to return he actual Symbol value. It's quite simple but
> i find quite limited in someway:
> a) If you have many symbols ( like dozen), your
> implementation will look like this :
>
> if ( )
> else if
> else if
> else...
>
> Of course you can do this differently but this "single point" of
> access, you'll always end up with something like this.
>
Some symbol sources are actually just "dynamic adapters". Take the
SystemPropertiesSymbolSource implementation for example:
public String valueForSymbol(String name)
{
return System.getProperty(name);
}
> b) If i had to "implement" this system i would have done this :
>
> List valueForSymbol()
>
> However i'm no architect or a renown designer ! So I believe I miss
> something : May be you can give use case we're this implementation
> comes handy or simply use case that's prove my assumptions false ?
>
In some cases your list of symbols might not be finite. That would a)
be impractical for the symbol source implementation and b) make it
impossible for HiveMind to find a symbol definition.
Hope this answer makes sense.
> 2) Interception provides somes great functionnality and seems to offer
> a very good subsitiute to AOP. My question is simply what AOP, which I
> don't really know, offers that HiveMind's interception has not...
>
The HiveMind interceptors aren't really meant to substitute AOP. You
can in fact define HiveMind interceptors in terms of AOP style
interceptors (see hivemind.lib.MethodInterceptorFactory for this). AOP
offers a whole lot more which is not covered by HiveMind. I suggest
you read some AOP articles and see for your self if it would be useful
to you.
Regards,
--knut
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