> From: Robert Mouat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Michael McKibben wrote: > > > Isn't this a chicken-and-the-egg problem? The CM must know which > > component instance to call lookup() on! Perhaps if it was a static > > method that was introspected, but I'm not sure that is a viable > > solution. JNDI has some nifty solutions that might be possible to > > borrow from, e.g. the Referenceable interface and the > > ObjectFactory/ObjectFactoryBuilder. > > that's why I suggested that they be singletons (i.e. only one > instance of the component). > > however - even if they were given some other lifestyle it > would still work, there would just be redundant instances.
Keep in mind that there are ways of creating singletons without static accessors. However that gets back to the ThreadSafe argument, which is what we are wanting to solve. Meta Data is the best way of doing this. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
