Hi Jerome, What is the status of the engine refactoring?
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Kevin Conaway <[email protected]>wrote: > I agree with everything you've written. It seems to me that while there is > a theoretical benefit to having the engine and RI separated, it doesn't see > much practical use. > > The end result of this patch is that I can configure the Engine to use the > connectors I want via Spring without using the auto-discovery process. > > Kevin > > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:44 AM, Jerome Louvel > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Kevin, >> >> Thanks for suggestion. For tracking purpose, here is the link to the RFE >> you created with your patch: >> >> "Add SpringEngine" >> http://restlet.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=620 >> >> In fact, the current plan for Restlet 1.2 is to move the >> "com.noelios.restlet.*" packages into "org.restlet.engine.*". This would >> allow us to package the Restlet Engine together with the Restlet API, into a >> single "org.restlet.jar" file. This would also ensure that the engine >> classes would receive the same level of backward compatibility support than >> the API classes. >> >> As a benefit, it would encourage people to build more >> extensions/connectors for Restlet as their code wouldn't depend on what >> currently looks like one specific implementation of the API >> (com.noelios.restlet.*). This would also allow us to simplify the code by >> removing the *Helper classes. Of course this would complicate the creation >> of alternative implementations of the API. >> >> We would then also remove the engine automatic discovery mechanism as it >> wouldn't bring value anymore. We would of course keep the mechanism for >> connector and authenticator pluggability. Maybe we would remove the Engine >> class itself and replace it with a new Registry for connectors. >> >> I'm not fully sure how that would impact your idea yet. What do you want >> to be able to configure via Spring in the end? Is it just the client and >> server connectors to use? >> >> Best regards, >> Jérôme Louvel >> -- >> Restlet ~ Founder and Lead developer ~ http://www.restlet.org >> Noelios Technologies ~ Co-founder ~ http://www.noelios.com >> >> ------------------------------ >> *De :* Kevin Conaway [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Envoyé :* mercredi 15 octobre 2008 18:44 >> *À :* [email protected] >> *Objet :* Spring Engine >> >> What are folks thoughts on adding a SpringEngine class to the Spring >> extension? >> >> This class would be a helper for configuring an Engine instance. Right >> now, the noelios Engine doesn't expose some of the necessary properties >> through setters (registeredClients, registeredServers etc) and you must call >> a static instance method to set the default Engine. >> >> All of that could be done through Spring factory beans but I think having >> a helper class in the Spring module would make things cleaner. >> >> We could also add appropriate setters where necessary to the Engine itself >> but that class is already quite big. >> >> Kevin >> > > ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=1195308
