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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:01:01 +0200
From: Lassi Immonen <limmonen@malla.urova.fi>
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Subject: Re: [C2]Advise on pooling
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Giacomo Pati wrote:
> 
> --- Lassi Immonen <limmonen@malla.urova.fi> wrote:
> > Giacomo Pati wrote:
> > >
> > > --- Lassi Immonen <limmonen@malla.urova.fi> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I would like to implement pooling in Transformer which translates
> > > > xml-files from translations file.
> > > > Now it loads translations to Map every time request is made but I
> > > > would
> > > > like to keep available pool of Maps containing translations for a
> > > > given
> > > > url/language.
> > >
> > > I don't know exactly what you mean. If you want to save already
> > > processed stuff into a store for later reusage then use the store
> > > component (see XalanTransformer.java).
> >
> > Well, now my transformer has field "Map dictionary". And I want to
> > add
> > "Hashtable dictionaries" which is in form (incoming url+lang,
> > dictionary) and put loaded dictionaries in there and check if one is
> > available before parsing translations file.
> 
> Don't use Hashtables! We are coding against a JDK 1.2 so use HashMaps.

Aha, there are quite many Hashtables in C2 source...

> 
> > Do I have to make my transformer poolable or put dictionaries
> > Hashtable
> > outside transformer to get the available dictionaries every time my
> > transformer is called? Is transformer created every time/request or
> > does
> > it stay in memory?
> 
> No transformer is able to be thread safe because of the SAX model
> (except you are using ThreadLocal stuff). So, if you implement Poolable
> on your transformer you prevent reinstaciating your transformer over
> and over again because the framework will put it into a pool. Use the
> store component from the ComponentManager to put your Maps into.
> 

So something like this:

MyTransformer

....
Hashmap dict = null;
ComponentManager cm;
..
setup(...) {
	MemoryStore ms = (MemoryStore)cm.lookup(Roles.STORE)
	Hashmap dictionaries = ms.get("DICTIONARIES");
	if (dictionaries == null)
		dictionaries = new Hashmap();
		ms.store("DICTIONARIES",dictionaries);
	if ( dictionaries has dictionary i need)
		dict = dictionaries.get(...)
	else {
	    dict = InitialiseDictionaryFromXMLFile();
	    dictionaries.put(...,dict);	  	
	}
}

Should I synchronize setup? 

Lassi
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