Currently, the service engine classes are a bit muddled.
GenericDispatcher (the default LocalDispatcher implementation) and
DispatchContext have feature envy. Some functionality in DispatchContext
belongs in ServiceDispatcher.
I would like to clean this up a bit and provide better separation of
concerns. The service engine API will not change - the work will be done
"under the hood."
My hope is to get the code to a point where DispatchContext becomes less
integral to its neighbors, and it becomes more of a single-use
lightweight container. Again, this will not change the API at all.
However, it will open up the possibility to improve the API. For
example, instead of this service implementation:
public static Map<String, Object> myService(DispatchContext dctx,
Map<String, Object> context) {
Locale locale = (Locale) context.get("locale");
...
we could have:
public static Map<String, Object> myService(DispatchContext dctx) {
Locale locale = dctx.getParameter("locale");
...
What do you think?
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Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com
