On Wednesday 17 September 2003 22:00, Timothy Bennett wrote: > I've long thought this was something that should be changed in Phoenix. I > have a database SAR that needs to be loaded and running before any other > SARs are loaded because blocks in these other SARs perform database access. > > Renaming the SARs to be alphabetically or copy the SARs > in the directory so the timestamps will be in particular order is just an > ugly kluge IMO.
Agree it is a ugly way... But IMHO, you should have a Service Discovery system in place, and all this disappears. JINI is one such system, that may a bit of overkill in your place (but could provide understanding of the basics), but basically, none of the systems should be dependent on availability of other services, just "fall back" to a known behaviour if they are not available at the moment, such as "do nothing". It is a bit tricky to get the hang of such a pattern, but once you do, you will find it very useful for just about everything over the network. Niclas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
