Shawn Dahlen wrote:
here is a complete backport of JDK5 annotations that is binary compatible with JDK 1.3/1.4i personally would like to use util.concurrent.Future
(java.util.concurrent.Future in JDK5 backported to JDK 1.4
http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/dcl/util/backport-util-concurrent/) in API
to denote delayed result such as async response message in MEP
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/Future.html
that is used for example in JBoss (though i think that API is overly
complex mix of homegrown async and EJB):
http://docs.jboss.org/ejb3/tutorial/asynch/asynch.html
I looked into the use of Future recently in JDK5, but I didn't know that it was backported. I think it would be wise to at least look into for the
async capabilities.
it is still better than dealing with callbacks IMHO: http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/02/23/remoting.html
and then there are some other interesting ideas mostly around metadata
annotations like this one:
http://jroller.com/page/talipozturk/20050117#asynchronous_methods_in_java
Has anyone done research into the potential projects that may offer
code annotations
in JDK 1.4? I think this will have some importance as we attempt to
simplify the
programming model. I know of Apache Attributes.
http://backport175.codehaus.org/Overview
alek
-- The best way to predict the future is to invent it - Alan Kay
