Re: parameter config is a mess

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 05:50:31PM +0100, Matthias Radestock wrote:
> Scott Miller wrote:
> 
> >Well, you can't change the value in threads that have already been 
> >created, as they have a new dynamic environment anyway.
> 
> not true. Parameters only get copied to dynenv when their value is set.
> 
> Anyway, I'm not too concerned about old threads.
> 
> >But why 
> >wouldn't future threads inherit the value if you change it?
> 
> Because there are many many ways to create threads and dynamic 
> environments. Only some of them do dynenv inheritance. It's in the 
> nature of *system* properties that you want them to apply as defaults 
> *system-wide*, i.e. setting a parameter via a system property should 
> have the same effect as if the parameter had been created with the 
> specified value as the default - all threads, no matter how you created 
> them, inherit it.

Wouldn't this suggest locating them in AppContext or in a new singelton 
class?

	Scott

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