Quoting "Niklas Therning (JIRA)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Add support for defining higher level state machines on top of MINA
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Key: DIRMINA-160
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRMINA-160
Project: Directory MINA
Type: New Feature
Reporter: Niklas Therning
Priority: Minor
Fix For: 1.0
We'll have to provide some kind of FSM support. This should give
users a set of best practices for building complex protocols on top
of MINA.
Trustin had the suggestion that we could implement it very simply by
implementing IoHandler which demultiplexes events to an appropriate
IoHandler implementation according to a certain session attribute
value.
I guess we could provide some means for defining the states and
transitions too.
Hi Niklas,
I suggested this some time ago. As Mina is asynchronous, this leads indeed to
state-based protocol handler.
It would be a great idea to develop code that could be reused.
The State pattern can help:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-1997/jw-08-stated_p.html.
Unfortunately, I don't know any open-source implementation of it.
Cheers,
J-F
