+1 On Jan 29, 2008 2:48 AM, Blake Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm, of course, in favor. > > -- Blake Sullivan > > > Gabrielle Crawford wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In case anyone filtered away the [jira] message..... > > > > I'd like to add the method described below to the requestContext. > > > > Comments? Objections? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Gab > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > > > add method to get an application scoped concurrentMap to RequestContext > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Key: TRINIDAD-926 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TRINIDAD-926 > > Project: MyFaces Trinidad > > Issue Type: Improvement > > Affects Versions: 1.2.5-core, 1.0.5-core > > Reporter: Gabrielle Crawford > > Assignee: Gabrielle Crawford > > Priority: Minor > > > > > > This started with Trin Issue 891 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TRINIDAD-891 > > > > To avoid the locking in the class loader we'd like to store a map of > > name->class per app. However the external context app map calls > > through to the ServletContext. The Servlet specification doesn't > > specify whether the ServletContext performs any locking on the > > ServletContext attributes and the ServletContext doesn't expose the > > necessary methods for efficient concurrent access (essentially the > > operations exposed on ConcurrentMap) necessary to work efficiently in > > many cases even if the ServletContext didn't need to perform locking > > on reads. The result is that the ExternalContext's ApplicationMap > > can't implement ConcurrentMap. > > We'd like to add a method to the RequestContext to get an application > > scoped concurrent map. This would not call through to the servlet > > context. The api proposed is this: > > > > > > /** > > * Gets a per application concurrent map. There is no synchronization > > * with ServletContext attributes. > > */ > > public abstract ConcurrentMap<String, Object> > > getApplicationScopedConcurrentMap(); > > > > > >
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