Hi Rob, > I kind of doubt "dynamically" -- but in practice, we > currently have a number of places that this happens in the > initialization sequence, and many of them are kind of clumsy.
As I don't see any particular drawback, I would also prefer to mark the method 'synchronized' for completeness purpose for this method and similar ones. > ServerServlet, in particular, needs a good way of doing this; > in idiomatic use it creates its own Component and initializes > the Application whose class name you pass as an > initialization parameter. Unless I've missed something > obvious (wouldn't be the first time), it's messy to get this > component and add in any extra protocols needed. Maybe we > should add some extra servlet initialization parameters to > help do it. I'm in process of adding the ability to specify the component to instantiate via a Servlet parameter. This is useful for multi-applications components as well as for specifying client connectors. See related issue: http://restlet.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=407 I'd also like to leverage an XML configuration mechanism later on: http://restlet.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=164 Best regards, Jerome
