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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:32:54 -0400
From: Berin Loritsch <bloritsch@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Component setup
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Gianugo Rabellino wrote:
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> while I understand this is more an Avalon-specific question,
> I'm a bit confused about component setup in Cocoon. From
> Berin's documents I understand that there are some methods
> that are called once in a component's life such as
> configure(), initialize(), compose() and so on.
> 
> I'm planning to use initialize() in XMLDBGenerator in
> order to obtain a database instance that will be reused
> during the component lifetime: I actually did it and it
> seems to work, yet by grepping the whole Cocoon code base
> I see that Initializable is implemented only in Cocoon.java:
> is that on purpose (i.e. is the use of Initializable discouraged
> for some reason that I'm missing) or is it just a coincidence?

It's mainly coincidence.  Much of Cocoon takes advantage of
the well defined ordering of method calls--or only use
Composable and Configurable.  They are relatively simple.

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