Re: [picocontainer-dev] child container API

Its so that you can garbage collect session and request scopes for  
web apps where Pico is controlling things. Amongst other things.
- Paul

On Jun 1, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Putrycz, Erik wrote:

> Currently I find the child API rather confusing. There are too many  
> ways to create a child container:
>
> pico.makeChildContainer()
>
> new PicoBuilder(parent)
>
> pico.addChildContainer
>
> new DefaultPicoContainer(parent)
>
>
> I’m not totally sure what the purpose of pico.addChildContainer is.  
> It doesn’t set the parent on the child container and this could  
> lead to an incoherent state.
>
> And now that there is the picobuilder, why not restrict the  
> creation of child containers to it?
>
>
> Erik.
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>