On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 07:39:58PM +0200, Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it seems that the CommandManager of the Excalibur Event package
> is not working as expected. If you add a command to the sink
> of the CommandManager it's never executed.
> Unfortunately, this code is used in the ContinuationsManager
> for testing against expired continuations. But the
> execute() method of ContinuationInterrupt is never invoked!
>
> So, it seems that there is a bug somewhere in the event package
> and our manager is not working properly.
>
> Why is the CommandManager instantiated in Cocoon.java, put
> into the Context and get out of it in contextualize in the
> ContinuationManagerImpl? The CommandManager is only used
> there. IMHO it would be much cleaner to either move the
> initialization to the ContinuationManagerImpl or to make
> a real component out of it. Passing components in the context
> seems to be a hack, no?
>
> I think, a simple solution would be to switch to the cornerstone
> scheduler component. This component works (see the scheduler sample
> in the scratchpad) and removing the CommandManager usage should also
> fix the shut-down problems with Tomcat entered as a bug that annoyes
> many users.
> But if someone is able to fix both problems in the event
> package I'm fine with that as well of course.
IIRC, the cornerstone scheduler was the orginal scheduler
used to expire continuations. I would need to delve into
the mail archives to retreive the reason that it was changed.
cheers,
Michael Melhem
>
>
> Carsten
>
> Carsten Ziegeler
> Open Source Group, S&N AG
> http://radio.weblogs.com/0107211/
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