Paul, Thanks, I'm beginning to see the light!
Peter On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 05:38, Paul Hammant wrote: > Peter, > > >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. > > > > > I find it best to not think of the contaner's impl (I use Phoenix > mostly) and just to think of the hosted component. The container just > cycles through the lifecycle methods in order and the component starts up. > > http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/framework/reference-the-lifecycle.html > > >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'? > > > > > Done by another. > > - Paul > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Peter Courcoux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
