Author: buildbot
Date: Thu Jul 2 16:47:15 2015
New Revision: 956703
Log:
Staging update by buildbot for aries
Modified:
websites/staging/aries/trunk/content/ (props changed)
websites/staging/aries/trunk/content/modules/async-svcs.html
Propchange: websites/staging/aries/trunk/content/
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Modified: websites/staging/aries/trunk/content/modules/async-svcs.html
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--- websites/staging/aries/trunk/content/modules/async-svcs.html (original)
+++ websites/staging/aries/trunk/content/modules/async-svcs.html Thu Jul 2
16:47:15 2015
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ Apache Aries aims to provide small, comp
programming in enterprise applications. The two key specifications are OSGi
Promises and the Async service.</p>
<h1 id="osgi-promises">OSGi Promises</h1>
<p>One of the fundamental pieces of an asynchronous programming system is the
<em>Promise</em>. A Promise is a holder type that
-represents an asynchronous calcluation. Since Java 5 the JDK has contained
<em>java.util.concurrent.Future</em> to perform this
+represents an asynchronous calculation or computation. Since Java 5 the JDK
has contained <em>java.util.concurrent.Future</em> to perform this
function. Java's Future type is, however, fatally flawed as it has no callback
to notify the user when it resolves. Instead the
user must make a blocking call to <em>get()</em>.</p>
<p>OSGi promises fix this problem by defining a Promise interface which allows
the user to register callbacks which will be
@@ -409,7 +409,10 @@ the Async service's <em>call()</em> meth
<p>Sometimes the user does not care when a piece of work finishes, or what
value it returns, or even whether it was successful.
These sorts of calls are called "fire and forget" calls, and are also
supported by the async service using the <em>execute()</em> method.</p>
<p>The execute method still returns a promise, however this promise represents
whether the fire and forget call successfully started
-or not, not whether it has completed.</p></div>
+or not, not whether it has completed.</p>
+<h1 id="getting-started">Getting Started</h1>
+<p>The Asynchronous Services implementation can be found in the Apache Aries
codebase in the <code>async</code> directory: <a
href="https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/aries/trunk/async";>https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/aries/trunk/async</a></p>
+<p>In this location a convenient all-in-one bundle can also be found with no
dependencies: the <code>async-all</code> module.</p></div>
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