> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicholas Lesiecki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 29 November 2003 22:07
> To: Cactus Developers List
> Subject: Re: [proposal] Cactus new vision (2)
> 
> I'm all for the term "broker". What exactly does a broker do? I don't
ask
> so
> much because I don't have a good general guess, but rather I want to
hear
> what are the common behaviors that every protocol will support.

- protocols: simply helper classes to transport information from cactus
client side to cactus server side

- brokers (or whatever term we wish to use): Ex.: Servlet broker, JSP
broker, Filter broker, EJB broker, etc. A broker is there to execute a
test case inside the container. It also defines the test case. For
example the user-visible part of the Servlet broker is made of:
ServletTestCase (and/or ServletTestSuite) + ServletRedirector. Brokers
uses protocols to help transfer client-side brokering data to the server
redirector.

So protocols != brokers

-Vincent

> 
> Cheers,
> Nick
> --
> Nicholas Lesiecki
> Software Craftsman, specializing in J2EE,
> Agile Methods, and aspect-oriented programming
> 
> Check out my books:
> * Mastering AspectJ: http://tinyurl.com/66vf
> * Java Tools for Extreme Programming: http://tinyurl.com/66vt
> 
> Check out my articles on AspectJ:
> * http://tinyurl.com/66vu and http://tinyurl.com/66vv
> 
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