Am Dienstag, 17. Februar 2004 17:18 schrieb Nevermann, Dr., Peter: > Hi Daniel, > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Daniel Florey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 14:27 > > To: Slide Developers Mailing List > > Subject: Re: wvcm questions > > > > > > Hello again... > > Some more questions: > > - Why is every method in the resource interface starting with > > doXXX? Isn't it > > redundant as the computer is anyway doing what we want him to do :-) > > Not every! ... There are also some getXXX and setXXX methods ;). Only the > doXXX methods are supposed to generate traffic to the server, all other > methods operate locally. > > There is some explanation in the javadoc of javax.wvcm.Resource: > > "Methods whose name begin with the prefix "do", as in "doCheckin", are > redirected by the proxy to the persistent resource (all other methods > operate just on the proxy itself). The state of the proxy itself is not > modified by a "do" method. In particular, if the request resulted in a > change to any of the property values of the persistent resource of the > proxy, those changes are not reflected in the proxy, but must be obtained > in a new proxy by a subsequent > doReadProperties(javax.wvcm.PropertyNameList) request. The "do" methods can > be expected to send and receive messages over the network to the remote > server that maintains the persistent resource."
Ah, I see. I promise to read the docs more carefully in future ;-) > > > - As I've seen so far the only way to get the resource > > content is to use the > > method doReadContent()... This method needs an output-stream > > to copy the > > content to. Whould it not be much better to have a method like: > > InputStream getInputStream()? The caller can now decide what > > to do with this > > stream (e.g. use it in a sequenceInputStream, read just the > > beginning of the > > stream). This is not possible with the current api. Or am I wrong? > > Well, the standard is still in process, there is opportunity to suggest > changes. I can forward the question to the JSR-147-EG, OK? Yes, that would be very nice! Regards, Daniel > > Regards, > Peter > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
