Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-geronimo-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 79791 invoked by uid 500); 15 Aug 2003 13:05:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact geronimo-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Reply-To: geronimo-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list geronimo-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 79764 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2003 13:05:27 -0000 Received: from dsl-217-155-97-60.zen.co.uk (HELO dsl-217-155-97-61.zen.co.uk) (217.155.97.60) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 15 Aug 2003 13:05:27 -0000 Received: from apple.int.bandlem.com ([10.0.0.20] helo=ioshq.com) by dsl-217-155-97-61.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19neGm-0003p5-00 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:05:28 +0100 Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:05:27 +0100 Subject: Re: [General] Container interface and AbstractContainer Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) From: Alex Blewitt To: geronimo-dev@incubator.apache.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <3F3CD919.2080909@apache.org> Message-Id: <23C533D0-CF21-11D7-A429-0003934D3EA4@ioshq.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Friday, Aug 15, 2003, at 13:59 Europe/London, Berin Loritsch wrote: > Jan Bartel wrote: > >> Or is a Service really just a Container? > > Speaking in definitions, a Service is a Component that performs an > action (as > opposed to represent a thing like EntityBeans). > > Services would include your different J2EE containers, and the things > that > they do. Surely then it makes it desirable to have a 'Thing' and 'Service' supertypes to distinguish between them? Alex.