When I first started reading the kernel22 thread, that was the first question I asked myself. The only thing that came to mind that I might want this for would be for a portal. I could definitely see wanting to add new portlets, and their required blocks, on the fly. However, wanting and needing are not the same thing.
Frankly, I think it is far more important to get the true separation and configuration of blocks implemented than implementing hot-swapping. In fact, some of the changes that have been contemplated have had me wondering whether 2.2 should really be 3.0, due to the magnitude of the changes. Ralph -----Original Message----- From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 7:41 AM To: Apache Cocoon Subject: [RT] polymorphism and hotswapping There are several proposals on the table on how to deal with this (Leo listed a few) and subjected to the constrains of the java platform (which wasn't exactly designed to deal with this complexity of dynamic loading), but the real question is: Do we really need hotswappability? -- Stefano.
