RE: Fwd: Xmlc: New location for XMLC Alpha download. ..

Great Stuff!! Whoopee! :D

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Kunze [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 11 March 2003 01:28
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Barracuda] Fwd: Xmlc: New location for XMLC Alpha
download. ..


On Tuesday 11 March 2003 10:10, Kirk Daries wrote:
> Hi Jake,
>
> Apologies for sounding ignorent.. but..
> What exactly do you mean by "deferred parsing for runtime document
> reloading"?

The document isn't compiled into the XMLC class anymore, but gets parsed at 
first access and whenever a change to the source file is detected. The XMLC 
class simply provides the interface to the document (i.e. access methods and

so on)

> Does this mean, tomcat can recycle references to the XMLC doc's so we can
> get around the issue of having to stop-start Tomcat in version 3.3 of
> Tomcat?

Depends. The contents of the document can change arbitrarily and the changes

are picked up by the reloading code. The XMLC class however can't change
(due 
to the fact that it's impossible in Java to recycle class definitions at 
will). This means that if e.g. the compiled class has an access method 
"getTagFoo()" but the reparsed version of the document does not define an id

named "foo" then getTagFoo() will still exist, but return null. And if the 
reparsed document defines a new id "bar", XMLC cannot generate a 
"getTagBar()" method on the fly (that's planned for the next major version, 
but I'm not sure how to implement it best yet).

If you use XMLC only as a DOM factory (like Barracuda does), then yes, you
can 
exchange the document contents on-the-fly, without any classloader hassles. 
:-)

Hope this helps,

Richard

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