GT2003WebContinuationManagement

Topics of !MiniTalk

by mpo

• General introduction to generic interfaces and roles inside the flow part of Cocoon

  • native continuation vs WebContinuation

  • WebContinuation and Manager

  • Interpeter and YourImplementations

  • Question: has WebContinuation Management been checked for race conditions?

• Interface to sitemap: start and continue
• Proposing name changes

  • java: Interpreter --> FlowProcessor

  • java: AbstractIntrepreter --> AbstractFlowProcessor

  • xconf: <flow-interpreters> --> <flow-processors> 

  • java: Interpreter.callFunction() --> FlowProcessor.initiateFlow()

  • java: Interpreter.handleContinuation() --> FlowProcessor.continueFlow()

  • xmap: map:call/@function -->   map:initiate/@flow

  • xmap: map:call/@continuation --> map:continue/@flow

• Question: do we need a mix of flowProcessors in one webapp?

• Remaining aspects of WebContinuation Management

  • End of live (gracefull==?, forcefull==expires, end-of-use-case==invalidate)
  • End of live callback to interpreter
  • Concurrency
  • Access Control

Additional comments:

• (yours here)

Outcome of the hackathon discussion:

(check back after monday 6th October)