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From: "Ivelin Ivanov" <ivelin@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: [control flow] changes and new sample
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 07:37:40 -0500
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How about callbacks.

Instead of doing sendpage( pageName ) and expecting the flow to continue on
the next line, we could use
sendPage ( pageName, callbackMethodPointer )
This way we avoid the need to suspend threads.

However if we consider this option, then how about simply using event
handlers for each submit button. This avoids the long if/else blocks. Event
handlers is what JSF, .NET, and many other frameworks before that used to
do. Although it is very easy to implement,
I chose not use event handlers in XMLForm until there is strong interest for
it. Usually an Action is concerned with one specific form and the flow
associated with it is relatively simple.


Thoughts?

Ivelin


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sylvain Wallez" <sylvain.wallez@anyware-tech.com>
To: <cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 3:33 AM
Subject: Re: [control flow] changes and new sample


> Christopher Oliver wrote:
>
> >Hi Ivelin,
> >
> >Actually I believe it is possible to have continuations in pure Java --
> >using bytecode rewriting -- however this approach is quite intrusive and
its
> >effect on performance and code-size is not insignificant (see:
> >http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~tim/MOS/brakes.html). Nevertheless the
> >performance of such instrumented code would likely still be significantly
> >faster than interpreted Rhino. I think it would be interesting to
prototype
> >such an approach. If someone is interested in doing this for Cocoon, I
> >suggest they contact the authors of Brakes and see if they might be
> >interested in contributing their code to Apache. Given that I think it
would
> >be fairly straightforward to set up a pure Java flow layer similar to
what
> >Ovidiu has done with JavaScript.
> >
> >
>
> Exactly my thoughts. I studied a bit what's done in Brakes and IMHO what
> brings complexity here is that a thread can be suspended/resumed at any
> point of its execution, and I believe continuations are easier to
> implement since they are suspended and resumed in well-kown places.
>
> This is one of my current background thinkings, and I plan to prototype
> something if - as always - I find time for it.
>
> Sylvain
>
> --
> Sylvain Wallez
>   Anyware Technologies                  Apache Cocoon
>   http://www.anyware-tech.com           mailto:sylvain@apache.org
>
>
>
>
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