Re: [Webmacro-devel] Re: ContextTool replacement - pseudo code to clarify

[Keats <ke...@su...>]

I think you are zeroing in on a critical distinction here.  The context 
tool "load on fault" mechanism allows you to avoid the overhead of 
creating new instances of context-aware objects.  Putting context aware 
factories into each request would accomplish the same thing, but with 
higher overhead.  (Actually this is virtually equivalent to the way it 
worked prior to Brian's latest changes, since the factories, CTs, were 
kept in a map within each context.)  It's really a "pull" verses "push" 
provisioning model.

Keats

Lane Sharman wrote:

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> Marc Palmer wrote:
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>> On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 13:46:36 -0700, Lane Sharman <la...@op...> 
>> wrote:
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>> Context doesn't need to know about ContextTools however.
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> This above statement is so confusing as to border on the curious. 
> Context.get(Object, Object) directly checks for a tool not in the 
> context and, if one is specified by the key, the tool value is placed in 
> the context. That is the way it works and this cannot be changed unless 
> you want to break backward compatibility. Could some other use for 
> context loading on a "fault" be dreamed up. Cannot think of one off hand.
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> -Lane
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