Re: context

Thank you very much ...

I wander ... that mapping is a very simple class like a Hashtable isn't ... 
no need for anything else?

How does the container publish the properties ... via a documentation 
obtained some how ... ex like is done in web services?

Regards
Sam

>From: J Aaron Farr <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: "Avalon framework users" <[email protected]>
>To: Avalon framework users <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: context
>Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:58:43 -0500
>
>Samuel Ferrer wrote:
>
>>I think, and guys correct me if I am wrong, the context is the container 
>>in which a component is running.
>
>One of the original Avalon Framework lifecyles was "Contextualize" [1].  
>During this phase, the component would be passed a "Context" object 
>(org.apache.avalon.framework.context.Context) by the container.  The 
>context object would contain a map of values that would help the component 
>know about the container environment such a container home directory.  You 
>can think of the Avalon context as similar to a ServletContext for 
>servlets, only an Avalon context is read only.  Only the container can set 
>the context values.
>
>However, part of the trouble with the Contextualize lifecycle was that the 
>framework did not specify any standard context values.  As such, each 
>Avalon container had a different set of similar context values [2].
>
>So, in the end, you're about right when you say "the context is the 
>container in which a component is running" but it might be better to say, 
>"the context is a map of information about the container environment in 
>which the component is running."
>
>Also, if you're just getting into Avalon, please be aware the project is 
>splitting.  You might also be interested in looking at the documentation at 
>Apache Excalibur (http://excalibur.apache.org) or Codehaus Loom 
>(http://loom.codehaus.org) in addition to that over at DPML.
>
>jaaron
>
>[1] http://avalon.apache.org/framework/principals/lifecycle.html
>[2] http://wiki.apache.org/avalon/AvalonContextSurvey
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