Re: [Bodington-developers] ResourceSummary

[Jon M. <jo...@te...>]

ResourceSummary was a performance enhancer for sending resource 
information through an RMI link. The Resource class when serialised 
would send keys (not references) to various BigString objects and 
fetching them through RMI would involve quite a bit of to and fro on the 
wire. So ResourceSummary is a non functional version of Resource that 
can hold all the important string values which can be serialised in one 
package.

If you get rid of RMI it becomes redundant. (Well, let's say 'even more 
redundant')

Jon

Matthew Buckett wrote:
> We have a class org.bodington.server.resources.ResourceSummary that 
> seems to be returned by a couple of routines in NavigationSession:
>
>     public ResourceSummary getRootSummary()
>         throws BuildingServerException;
>        
>     public Vector childSummaries( PrimaryKey resource_id )
>         throws BuildingServerException;
>
> but it seems like these methods never get called. What was the idea 
> with ResourceSummary and is it going to be developed further?
>