Hi Johan!
Thanks for your answer!
According to your answer I think the servlet filters describe more of what I
need than the pipelines ... right now I solved it with a service that
includes my three other services (injected by the framework of course) and
handles the forwarding of the results. That works for me, I was just curios
if the pipelines are meant to do something like that.
To come back to the documentation:
It was not my point to offend anyone involved in that project or the project
itself (just to say it again :-)
There is good documentation to get started, the most useful part is the
calculator example.
Beyond the example there is enough documentation to get an idea what you can
do with Hivemind, but the explanation is to general ....
Concrete example: Multithreading service model:
It is explained how it works generally and then there is the following
sentence in the documentation.
"The service instance is discarded when notified to cleanup; this is
controlled by the hivemind.ThreadEventNotifier service. If your application
has any threaded services, you are responsible for invoking the
fireThreadCleanup() method of the service."
I really, really tried to work out how to do this with research in the
internet, but I still can't do it .... and there are some more things like
that in the documentation: it is mentioned, with some hint how to do it, but
to vague to do it immediately.
Perhaps it is really easy to do, but with just about 5 days Hivemind -
experience it is not ... :-(
Just some more concrete coding examples would be really great!
If I ever find out how to do the task mentioned above I will work out an
easy example and post it as you suggested, I promise this :-)
Regards
Jochen
Original Message -----
From: "Johan Lindquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: Pipelines, Threaded services - is there any more documentation?
Hi Jochen,
Right from the start, the Hivemind project has aimed to provide clear
and concise instructions and information but as you also understand,
this is of course not always possible. However, if you have some
changes you'd like to contribute, I am quite confident such help is
always welcome. I would suggest you create a JIRA for it, attach the
changes you think see fit and someone will take a look and update the
documentation to reflect this.
As for you questions relating to the "pipeline" - I am not sure this is
a good fit to your problem - the pipeline is very similar to the
interceptors in that it allows arbitrary implementations to slot in
between the service interface and the actual implementation and the
pipeline, as opposed to the interceptors, work with the service
interface definition directly and have the exact same parameters defined
by the service interface (plus the additional parameter being the next
service in the pipeline to invoke). So, in short, the pipeline is a
"more typed" version of the interceptor. I have used the pipeline quite
effectively for validation of parameters and simple caching.
The scenario you are describing sounds more like the Filters in the
Servlet API - each filter gets invoked and they may pass parameters
"down" the chain by adding data to the servlet request - does that match
more what you have in mind?
Cheers,
Johan
Jochen Zimmermann wrote:
Hello!
Right now I get used to Hivemind and I am starting to like it very much
:-)
BUT .... I really think there is a massive lack of documentation.
I know (as I work for a software company myself) that writing
documentation is not really the favorite thing to do and I'm very happy
that my company has a own department doing this job, but on the other
hand: the coolest software is of no use if no one can use it :-)
And even if I found out a lot by myself right now it is frustrating to
trial and error for 3 hours (or more) just to find out how easy it is
done if you know how to do it (in a sense it is even more frustrating
than it would be if it would be hard to do ;-)
The API help does not help me that much, because they don't really
describe how to do things in the context of the framework.
If there is more documentation and I'm just to stupid to find it, please
point me to it!!
Again, I like Hivemind very much already, I even would volunteer to
write some documentation.
What about the cookbook? I read in the newsgroup about it, but I could
not find it.
I don't know much about Hivemind right now, but as I hope to find out
more about it in the near future I could write about the things I learn
(and perhaps it is not to bad to describe it from a beginners point of
view), and if there would be a start, perhaps others would join in?
But after that outburst of frustration (after trial and error the whole
afternoon) some questions:
1.:
At the moment I have three services, and I need them executed in a row.
A -> give results to -> B -> give results to -> C
Each of them is used (or at least could be used) alone from another
point of the application, so I want to keep them separated.
I found something about pipelines in the net, but I could not find more
documentation on how to use them, I even did not found out if they are
really intended to do what I need here.
2.:
I tried to build my own "pipeline" using threaded services bundled
together in a "parent" service.
I got it working, but: after processing about 2500 objects that way I
get a java out of memory error.
After searching the internet a little more I found out that I should
clean up.
Can someone post me a little example of a threaded service including the
"clean up" part?
Thanks a lot for your time again!
Jochen
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