Re: [Springframework-developer] Streaming (InputStream) support for HttpInvoker

[Steven D. <ste...@gm...>]

On 8/12/05, Andy Depue <an...@ma...> wrote:
> On Thursday 11 August 2005 05:01 pm, Steven Devijver wrote:
> > Andy,
> >
> > Are you building your own iTunes? I would like you to apply for
> > developer privileges on https://springmodules.dev.java.net and post
> > this code in the sandbox so we can all enjoy this.
> >
> > Steven
>=20
> No, I'm not building my own iTunes. :)
> My hope, if the Spring devs smile upon this contribution, is that this mi=
ght
> make it into Spring itself, since it is just an optional extension to the
> standard HttpInvoker that is already bundled with Spring.  I'm guessing t=
hat
> if I put it in springmodules sandbox it would then remain in springmodule=
s?
> Of course, one could always download the source and unit tests from the J=
IRA
> issue if they just wanted to play around with it. ;)
>=20
> As a side note, we needed this in order to support managing large documen=
ts
> from our client.  We wanted a very simple solution (from the developer's
> perspective), and to us, that meant just adding another method to our alr=
eady
> existing service interface that took an InputStream as parameter, and ano=
ther
> that returned an InputStream (for downloading).  We need the streaming
> support as these documents will typically be larger than available RAM.

Andy,

Spring Modules is Spring's incubation repository. From there your code
may move to more specific modules; coding standards, documentation and
tests being some of the considerations.

Steven