Hi,

I want to start using Hivemind for our reusable Java services across multiple 
projects. It abstracts nicely from specific J2EE mechanisms, and forces an 
abstract java-interface-only spec of each service.

Question is the following: RegistryBuilder.constructDefaultRegistry rebuilds 
the registry every time. That is not good if POJO's, servlets and JSPs use that 
to get service instances all the time.

For JSP/servlet environments there is the HiveMindFilter that provides one 
registry through a request attribute. That is not good enough, because I want 
to be able to get the same instance from POJO's as well, that have no knowledge 
of the servlet request.

My idea is the following:
- have a "HiveRegistry" class of myself, with a static getService method
- this method gets the registry and returns the service from it
- the way it gets the registry can be:
  a) static singleton in the same class
  b) registry instance from JNDI context, with a startup class registering the 
instance in JNDI

Option (a) works okay with webapps I think, as each webapp would generally get 
its own classloader, and as such its own instance in the static variable. Hot 
(re-)deployment could work then, have to test. Ideas?

Option (b) would mean a servlet context listener that would create the 
registry, put it in the webapp JNDI context, and the HiveRegistry class simply 
returning it from JNDI.

I am aiming for option a (naturally), however am not sure if it's the best one. 
Also am wondering if this can be incorporated in the Hivemind framework itself, 
instead of having to deal with this myself.

Looking forward to your input!

Regards,
Klaas Waslander


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Klaas Waslander
Systems Architect
Tiscali NL
website: www.tiscali.nl

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