That was part of my point earlier on. There is a difference between the 'normal' continuations concept and how it is applied to web frameworks though. There are people working on 'native' continuations support.
Here's a must-read on the topicus, which discusses a lot of points that are relevant to Wicket as well (like I said, the way Wicket and web continuations work doesn't differ that much imo): http://common-lisp.net/project/ucw/docs/html/rest/rest.html Eelco On 10/5/05, Justin Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------- 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
