Re: [picocontainer-dev] Pushing/Pushy - standard hammant naming blues.

Paul Hammant wrote:
> Guice has a concept of an 'eager singleton'.  Of course its really 
> 'eager single managed instance' and eager means:
> 
>   component that will instantiate even though it is not depended on 
> anything that is going to be looked-up from the container, nor is it 
> looked-up itself.
> 

> We used to just mark them as Startable with nothing in start()/stop().
> 
> So there is a new BehaviorFactory called Pushing that creates a 
> ComponentAdapter called Pushy (remember I'm liking all that 
> behavior-esque naming a la 
> http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html 
> )
> 
> I've been off to thesaurus.com looking for one word adjective, or two 
> word phrase ( http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/pushing ) that's 
> equiv to:
> 
>   component that will instantiate even though it is not depended on 
> anything that is going to be looked-up from the container, nor is it 
> looked-up itself.
> 

I think eager  - as opposed to lazy - is the concept that best describes this kind of behaviour and 
that is universally recognizable by the dev community.




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