Ralph Goers schrieb:
On Dec 20, 2008, at 7:32 AM, Oliver Heger wrote:
Just another point: There are other flat configuration implementations
that do not extend BaseConfiguration, e.g. the web configurations or
DatabaseConfiguration. AbstractFlagConfiguration was intended to serve
as a common base class for all of these.
I noticed that. I wondered why they don't extend BaseConfiguration
instead. I guess I'm not clear why both are needed.
Ralph
This is because of the different ways of storing configuration data.
BaseConfiguration uses a map for storing its properties in memory. Other
flat configurations use different storage mechanisms. For instance,
DatabaseConfiguration directly accesses the database on each property
access, the web configurations access their corresponding context objects.
AbstractFlatConfiguration was intended to implement the common
functionality needed by flat configurations, but without defining a
specific storage mechanism.
Oliver
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