Hi, I've been quietly reading the user and dev lists for a week or two and am now getting my brain round my first trivial components. Many thanks to Berin for "Developing with Apache Avalon". It makes a lot of sense and has helped considerably in understanding the principals.
I have struggled a bit with the 'ContainerComponent' and 'ComponentManager' part of 'Implementing the Dream'. I am only slowly beginning to see how these actually fit into an application. It is relatively clear what they do, I think, just not clear to my very slow mind what best practice is in using them. If a re-usable component itself uses components, in addition to implementing its work interface it needs to also be a container to be able to obtain the references to the components it needs. Is this correct? I had wondered whether the 'work interface' should be kept separate from the 'container', but I think I am right in saying that this is not what the framework intends. If someone could either confirm my thoughts or put me on the right track I would be most grateful. One small point that confused me is the javadoc for the Serviceable interface. Am I correct that line 11 of the source should start 'A Serviceable' and not 'A Composable'? Many thanks to all concerned. Peter Courcoux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
