Re: Resource factories

[Tal Liron]

Thanks to all who replied on this. After a discussion on the code list, it became clear that the Restlety solution to configuring resources is to use the Context. The Context has a ConcurrentMap of attributes, described as so: "This is a convenient mean[s] to provide common objects to all the Restlets and Resources composing an Application." So, that's it! The nice thing about contexts, too, is that they pass through restlets along the way. So, even if you configure your Application context in a certain way, you can apply filters or whatnot along the way to adapt the configuration. For example, a DebuggingFilter might enable all the configuration aspects that have to do with debugging. It's then easy to add/remove such a filter, even on-the-fly, without reconfiguring the whole application. -Tal