Hi Arinto, that method is for properly cleaning up a PE instance. It could be used to release resources that may be allocated within PE instances, and it could be triggered by some special event (some kind of "poison" event), or some other condition.
It can be called from user code and custom behavior for releasing resources can be specified in "onRemove()" method. Do you have a specific usage in mind? Matthieu On May 4, 2013, at 17:17 , Arinto Murdopo wrote: Hi all, What does close() method means in org.apache.s4.core.ProcessingElement class? The documentation<https://people.apache.org/~mmorel/apache-s4-0.6.0-incubating-doc/javadoc/org/apache/s4/core/ProcessingElement.html#close%28%29> says nothing regarding this method. best regards, Arinto www.otnira.com<http://www.otnira.com/>
