Re: What is transient metadata ?

Holger Krug <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 03:08:23PM +0200, Svata Dedic wrote:

> Interesting - how would you imagine the `functional rules' ? So
> instead of giving rules, I will hook in a metadata producing
> machine.

When you are able to split the machine into two parts, one determining
*how* to compute metadata and the other determining *when* meta-data
shall be computed, than the first one is what I mean with `functional
rules'.

> Ideally, a client using JMI reflection could extract that data without 
> knowing they're transient.

Yes.

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Holger Krug
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