[Seaside] [FIX] SeasideServiceSyncToSeaside2.3

[Derek Brans]

Stephen,

Are you planning to do a XML-RPC ServerNG?

Derek Brans
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Pair" <stephen at pairhome.net>
To: "The Squeak Enterprise Aubergines Server - general discussion."
<seaside at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Seaside] [FIX] SeasideServiceSyncToSeaside2.3


>
>
> Avi Bryant wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Stephen Pair wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>I seem to recall that Seaside used to have a method called
> >>#threadSafeValue: added to BlockContext.  Maybe I'm wrong.  Anyway, if
> >>one wanted to use a block with a pluggable http service, then I'll need
> >>to use some sort of mechanism like this.  To allow multple invocations
> >>of the block, I think I'll need to do something like:
> >>
> >>----
> >>BlockContext>>threadSafeValue: arg
> >>
> >>    ^self copy fixTemps value: arg
> >>----
> >>
> >>Why was that message dropped from Seaside?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Because Seaside no longer needs it.  It used to be that invoking a
> >continuation didn't properly terminate the current stack, so any blocks
> >that were in the middle of being executed couldn't ever be executed
again.
> >Before I figured out what was really going on, I used #threadSafeValue a
> >lot to copy blocks before executing them.  When I fixed the bug in
> >continuation so that the stack got terminated, I was able to remove all
> >the sends to #threadSafeValue.
> >
> >However, in this case you will indeed still need something like that,
> >because you're actually dealing with multiple processes evaluating the
> >same block at once, not just with continuation issues.
> >
> >Avi
> >
> >
> Ok...thanks.  Just wanted to check.
>
> - Stephen
>
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