Jeremy Quinn wrote: > > > At 9:10 am -0500 28/11/01, Berin Loritsch wrote: > >Jeremy Quinn wrote: > > > >> At 2:10 pm +0100 28/11/01, Michael Hartle wrote: > >> > >>>Jeremy Quinn wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>The main issue here though is "WritableSource". Is this the way to go? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>I think already the name WritableSource shows the need for further > >>>thinking towards more basic, integrated approaches to handle both > >>>'Sources' and 'Destinations' in a protocol/transport-independent manner > >>>appropriately in Cocoon. As Cocoon is about presenting and transforming > >>>content rather than storing, currently there is no counterpart to the > >>>basic Source interface; lets design a peer counterpart to Source and > >>>make it equally integrated into Cocoon as Source is now. > >>> > >> > >> I am +1 on that! > >> > >> I am not much of an Architect though ..... > > > > > >Please, > > > >check out the Monitor package of Excalibur. It has the equivalent of a > >Source (Resource) that can both read and write. Plus, it has > the advantage > >of notifying listeners when the write was performed--allowing the cache > >to clean itself up. > > > Thanks for the suggestion. > > Do you mean that this could either replace or supplement the > techniques for > deriving Sources from pseudo protocol handlers, used currently in > Cocoon 2? > > I will read up on it. > We are currently in the process of moving the Source interface to Avalon excalibur. A first start of this can be found in the scratchpad of excalibur. Currently, we are searching for a connection between the Source and the Monitor package. (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=100573403100001&w=2&r=1).
I still am in favour of separating these things, so I would rather add a Destination interface. But let's see what we can make out of it. Carsten > regards Jeremy > > > -- > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Jeremy Quinn Karma Divers > webSpace Design > HyperMedia Research Centre > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.media.demon.co.uk> <phone:+44.[0].20.7737.6831> <pager:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
