how to terminate components

Hello,

I'm wondering which is the "best" way to asynchronously terminate a 
component. Say I have 
some failure within sfStart and I want to terminate the component 
immediately. I could call sfTerminate(...). But then I found out that I 
have to make the subsequent executing lines of sfStart 
dependent on sfIsTerminating(). So far I understand sfTerminate starts a 
TerminatorThread thus termination is not "immediately". On the other hand 
I could 
throw a SmartFrog exception. But this does not seem appropiate. I 
understand that SF exceptions are for SF inherent errors and not for 
components failing for other reasons. What does throwing an SF exception 
mean ? Would it also terminate other Compounds resp. components then the 
one which threw the exception ?

To sum up: I want to terminate a component immediately on some failure 
encountered during sfStart. Therefore I use sfTerminate in conjuntion with 
sfIsTerminating(). Is this the right way to do this ?

Thanks for your advice,
Andreas



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