Hi, I just put some highly experimental (but after all, that's what alpha-dev versions are for, aren't they? ;-) ) code into the HEAD.
If it works out right (and it does for me by using Turbine and AvalonComponentService), it should solve all the issues with initialization from the static class. Simply by removing the static variables. ;-) I moved the whole class code into a Singleton (TorqueSingleton) and replaced the method calls themselves with facade wrappers (just like Turbine Services). Avalon, compared to that, accesses the singleton directly and skips the Torque wrapper class. As net result, you should be able to use Torque just as before (standalone with Torque) or with an environment that loads and inits Torque for you (Turbine with ComponentService or AvalonComponentService) and as a "real" Avalon component, where you do import org.apache.torque.avalon.Torque; import org.apache.torque.avalon.TorqueComponent; TorqueComponent tc = (TorqueComponent) manager.lookup(Torque.ROLE); then you replace all Torque.<foo> method calls with doing tc.<foo> But the static peers should still work, because they access Torque through the facade and end up in the same Singleton object as the tc.<foo> method calls. I did some preliminary testing and it seems to work. But this really cries for more testing. Regards Henning P.S.: Martin, I put some comments into the Torque class about the Stratum deprecation. After we removed that code, can we please make Torque an all static class by declaring it abstract? Thanks. -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ Java, perl, Solaris, Linux, xSP Consulting, Web Services freelance consultant -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire --- Quote of the week: "Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience." --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]