+1 from me too. Way back when I was working on the ActiveMQ - Geronimo integration, the poxies gave me a few headaches.
Regards, Hiram On 3/19/06, Matt Hogstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +1...the debugging thing has been a problem. If for no other reason this is > the > right thing to do. However, there will be users who care less about isolation > and more about memory and speed. This gives them the choice to run exposed to > get what they want. > > Matt > > Dain Sundstrom wrote: > > On Mar 18, 2006, at 5:18 AM, John Sisson wrote: > > > >> Dain Sundstrom wrote: > >> > >>> Forgot to mention, I added an experimental flag to 1.1 which will > >>> turn off proxying in GBean references. This means that the injected > >>> reference will be the actual service instance and not a proxy to the > >>> service. My guess is this will break a few services that use > >>> ProxyManager.getProxyTarget(Objcet), since the reference won't be a > >>> proxy. All of these uses will have be rewritten to not assume a > >>> proxy if we want to keep use this flag. > >>> > >>> To turn it on, you simply set the system property > >>> org.apache.geronimo.gbean.NoProxy=true. This is property is picked > >>> up by a static block in the AbstractGBeanReference class, so the > >>> property will apply for the life of the kernel class loader > >>> (normally the life of the vm). > >>> > >>> -dain > >>> > >>> > >> What was the reason for this experiment? > > > > > > I'd like to completely remove proxying between gbeans in the future, > > but I think it would lots break stuff to just flip it over right now. > > Proxying between GBeans is problematic because it changes the expected > > programming model of component writers. When you are giving out > > proxies instead of the instance, the user can no longer use == for > > comparison, and the since proxies are so much slower, the expected > > overhead of a call is much higher. Both of these require require > > changes to the component for it to run in geronimo, and if we want to > > have the largest component base, we're going to have to change. > > > > Besides all of that, it is really a PITA to debug geronimo since you > > have to step through all of those proxies, for really no reason. > > > > -dain > > > > > > > -- Regards, Hiram
