Re: Rule Engine / Dispatcher

[Saminda Abeyruwan]

Hi,

So we are looking at Mediator interface like,

public int mediate(MessgeContext msgCtx) ;

+1 for "int" approach. So, this way, if we can achieve extensibility in future.

Saminda

On 10/21/05, Deepal Jayasinghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi paul;

 

+1 for that approach, return an int instead a boolean

Thanks,
 Deepal
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----- Original Message -----

From: Paul Fremantle

To: synapse-dev@ws.apache.org

Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 7:50 PM

Subject: Re: Rule Engine / Dispatcher

Ant,

I was thinking that it would be up to the Engine whether to spawn a new thread or not. But I guess the point is if its a call rather than a return, that would be complex. On the other hand, I guess we could simply change the response from a boolean to an int

e.g.

public static final int CONTINUE=0, END=1, RESTART=2; etc

That way the engine can decide whether to use a new thread or continue on the existing one. However, we shouldn't make assumptions about which thread a mediation is run on.

Paul