Hi all, I've just found time to read this thread and enjoyed it very much. It's hard to find the best balance between so much points of views and ways to deal with instantiations, wiring of objects, etc. so it's nice to hear that the current design has more advantages than drawbacks. As Tal mentioned, we are redesigning the Resource API to support client-side resources and focused use of annotations. I didn't intend to change the way resources are instantiated though. But, if we can adjust the new design to accommodate more use cases, I would be interested to explore. Currently, we are working on Restlet 1.2 M2 which will give you a chance to play with the new resource API and provide feed-back. Best regards, Jerome Louvel -- Restlet ~ Founder and Lead developer ~ <http://www.restlet.org/> http://www.restlet.org Noelios Technologies ~ Co-founder ~ <http://www.noelios.com/> http://www.noelios.com
_____ De : Tal Liron [mailto:tal.li...@threecrickets.com] Envoyé : jeudi 26 mars 2009 08:49 À : discuss@restlet.tigris.org Objet : Re: Resource factories 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 ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=1429304
