Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
>Ok, I think we should have a look at a features list of fortress
>and merlin compared to the ECM.
>
The closest thing I can point you to is the Merlin FAQ which provides a
summary of the differences between Merlin and other related work in
Avalon land.
http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/excalibur/merlin/faq.html
>
>Is this somewhere available?
>
In addition to the above, the Merlin documentation inlcudes:
The general Merlin 2.0 documetation
http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/excalibur/merlin/
Merlin 2.0 APIs.
http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/excalibur/merlin/api/
Excalibur Container
http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/excalibur/container/
(Merlin 2.0 provides full support for the lifestyle - refer
attributes page)
and lifecycle extension mechanisms
Excalibur Meta (the meta info layer)
http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/excalibur/meta
>
>I learned by this thread that some marker interface are not
>available anymore and have to be configured somewhere for fortress.
>Is this right?
>
Yep - instead of defining these sort characteristics through a maker
interface, the Merlin 2 approach enables component authoris to declare
this information in the meta-mode for the type. For example, you can
declare a atttrtibute "avalon:lifestyle" with a value of "pool",
"transient", "thread", etc. Details on attribute values related to
lifestyle are included under the link
http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/excalibur/container/attributes.html
(end of page).
>
>So which marker interfaces are concerned? C
>How much effort is it to still support those marker interfaces without
>needing the extra configuration?
>
>
It is possible in Merlin providing you declare a customer lifestyle
manager. The default lifestyle manager does not support the lifestyle
marker interrfaces but it wouldn't be a big thing to create a manager
that checked for marker interfaces. This could declare at the system or
container level.
Cheers, Steve.
>Carsten
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