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Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 22:43:42 +0100 (BST)
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Subject: Re: [components] - lazy loading...
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That is an excellent idea.
+1


 --- Jules Gosnell <jules@coredevelopers.net> wrote: >
a chat with a friend, Shane, at work today produced
> these thoughts....
> 
> Imagine that rather than having a set number of
> configurations which all 
> load every service at startup, Geronimo could load
> just the components 
> needed to provide the services required by your
> deployables...
> 
> e.g. you are doing web development, so when you
> start Geronimo it just 
> loads the webcontainer component and deploys your
> webapp. You webapp 
> decides to load a javax.naming class so the JNDI
> service is brought on  
> line, it loads a javax.mail class and looks up a
> mail service in JNDI - 
> the mail service is brought up... etc
> 
> If we could lazily load services as required,
> startup time would be 
> greatly reduced, footprint as well, and the
> distributions complexity too 
> - since we could just ship everything and only what
> was needed would be 
> used.
> 
> just a thought to file away for a rainy day :-)
> 
> 
> Jules
> 
> -- 
> /*************************************
>  * Jules Gosnell
>  * Partner
>  * Core Developers Network (Europe)
>  * http://www.coredevelopers.net
>  *************************************/
> 
>  

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