Re: [ecf-dev] Remote service API

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott Lewis wrote on 09/12/2006 11:04:11 PM:

> - do you see integrating with/using concurrency constructs like 
> Futures whith remove services?   
> 
> We could...I almost already did.  ECF already has a class 
> representing a 'future' (called AsynchResult) and I was mentally 
> toying around with using either that or the java.util.concurrent.
> Future in JRE 1.5 standard (similar to AsynchResult, which is based
> upon Doug Lea's concurrent package before java.util.concurrent) as
> one of the methods of IRemoteService invocation (to go along with
> the methods already there:  synchronous call/return, asynch-with-
> listener, asych, and proxy).  

Good point.  Personally I avoid 1.5 dependencies
if there is a way around it.  Not that I am against 1.5 but it raises
the bar on consumption.

Thanks
Jeff