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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:21:35 +0200
From: Stephen McConnell <mcconnell@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: [merlin] singleton not really a singleton ??
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kristian meier wrote:

> Hi,
>
> since I made a new build this week I have problems with components 
> which are marked as singletons in the xtype-file
> but get instantiated serveral times.
>
> my setup is the following:
>
<snip-interesting-block-directive/>

>
>
>
> this configuration starts fine and works correct. but if I an add 
> attribute activation="startup" to the "http-server" component than at 
> time of instanciating the "find-proxy-ip"  component I get an "address 
> already in use"-exception, because a second instance of the 
> "http-server" is created :-( 


That's not good!

>
> the old build I use the last 2-3 weeks worked fine. so the question is 
> moreless: is this a bug or a feature ? 


It's a bug.
I was doing messing with the activation policy stuff a couple of weeks 
ago - looks like I've done something silly.

> for me the activation attribute shouldn't have any effect on the 
> singleton attribute. the effect I have when I deploy more than one of 
> these Composer (all different types).
>
> I have another place where I end up with to many different instances 
> of singletons, but before digging into that I wanted to find out, if I 
> understand the concept of singleton within the container hierachy of a 
> block correctly. 


What you expecting to happen should be happening.  I'm going to put 
together a testcase asap and see what is happening.

Cheers, Steve.

>
>
> with best wishes Kristian
>
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