Ian's right, it was originally intended to serve as a type of Java Bean for Webware. My intention for it was to have a process to: 1) Have a streamlined interface for instantiating objects from PSP or Servlets, with automated handling of locating the class and that kind of thing 2) Provide storage for instantiated objects that are used by multiple Servlets or PSP pages, so that you could have one or many instances of a class instantiated, as preferred, and provide, as above, for some sort of automated instantiation if the class did not already have an object instantiated/available.
This would also provide a solution for the problem everyone seems to ask about at some point of where to store information, with the common solution being to put it in a global dictionary in Application. Anyway, I wasn't working on it actively and so we pulled it out a few releases ago. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Bicking [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 8:32 PM > To: rdg > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Webware-discuss] CanKit Question > > > It wasn't being used or actively developed, and it has been > put aside. > I believe references to it have been deleted from recent releases. > > I believe Jay Love was behind it. It's been unclear to a lot > of us what > exactly its goals were -- Bean-like, but even that needs some > explaining > in the context of Webware. > > On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 19:11, rdg wrote: > > Having read and reread all of the WebWare and WebKit docs, > I went on to > > review the last 4 months of mailing list archives. > > > > In all of that, I only saw 2 or 3 references to > implementing "beans" for > > WebWare -- under the name CanKit. > > > > Can someone tell me the status of CanKit? Is there any current > > functionality? > > > > thanks, > > rdg > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Webware-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss > __ ********************************************** This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your cooperation. ********************************************** ec03/04 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
