Actually, rife supports continuations in java. https://rife.dev.java.net/
Timo Stamm wrote: > Eelco Hillenius wrote: > >> Actually, when you look closer to the whole continuation thing, >> continuations are not so incompattible with how Wicket works now. > > > I guess the problem is that continuations are not really compatible with > java. An elegant implementation of continuations in java seems to be > impossible. > > > The > >> original idea of continuations is to never return a value, but pass a >> context object (continuation) to the next function call. That idea >> translated to webapplications seems to be to have a 'wait-for-input' >> concept, so that you can model a flow like a couple of linear steps >> that conceptually 'pause'/ wait for input before it moves to the next >> step. As Wicket has a current state and does not work with return >> values for flow, I think we could defend that we do the same thing as >> the original definition, though with a slightly different flavor. At >> least it has the same net effect. And... if you want to do the web >> variant of continuations... that's easy... just create a mini >> framework that handles the flow and - I think - you're done. > > > That would just be a state machine. > > >> Or... maybe I don't get the idea of continuations just yet. Please >> correct me if that is the case :) > > > Have a look at this article: > http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-contin.html > > > Jetty 6 is going to have continuation support. Are there any plans of > supporting jetty continuations? > > http://www.mortbay.com/MB/log/gregw/?permalink=Jetty6Continuations.html > > > Timo > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > Wicket-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user -- Justin Lee http://www.antwerkz.com AIM : evan chooly 720.299.0101 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
