On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 08:05 AM, Alex Blewitt wrote:
On Friday, Aug 15, 2003, at 13:59 Europe/London, Berin Loritsch wrote:
Jan Bartel wrote:
Or is a Service really just a Container?
Speaking in definitions, a Service is a Component that performs an action (as
opposed to represent a thing like EntityBeans).
Services would include your different J2EE containers, and the things that
they do.
Surely then it makes it desirable to have a 'Thing' and 'Service' supertypes to distinguish between them?
I'm not sure what you mean by 'Thing' here, but JSR77 makes a distinction between a resource and an instance of a resource (a service). So they have things like a JDBC Driver (a resource) and a JDBC connection pool (a service). Is that what you mean?
-dain
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