Community,
I was thinking about creating a factory class that would generate some basic
MINA-based servers. This system would be something analogous to the
java.util.concurrent.Executors class and the
java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService interface. What I propose is to write
a class called MinaApplicationFactory which has a bunch of static methods
that return MinaApplication objects. These MinaApplication objects would
represent basic, functional MINA-based servers that could be further
customized or just run as is. Here is some prototype methods in the
MinaApplicationFactory class:
// would return a MinaApplication with no filters and no network protocol
handlers
public static MinaApplication createSimpleDataServer( int port,
IoHandlerAdapter handler );
// would return a MinaApplication binding to the specified, using no filters
and utilize the TextLineProtocol
public static MinaApplication createSimpleTextServer( int port,
IoHandlerAdapter handler );
// create a MinaApplication that sends data to the specified port.
public static MinaApplication createSimpleHttpClient( int port,
IoHandlerAdapter handler );
The list could go on-and-on, but I thought that this might be a good idea
for people just prototyping or for people who just want to experiment with
simple MINA programs. I think this could also be used for when someone
wanted to create a client-side application. The MinaApplication interface
would look something like:
public void startup() throws Exception;
public int getPort();
public IoHandlerAdapter getHandler();
There would probably be a MinaApplicationImpl class that actually was
returned from the factory class.
So that is an idea I was thinking about today. Let me know if anyone sees
this as having any use in the MINA project.
Thanks
Mark
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