[2291] in java-interest
Persistency of Objects
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ozymandias G desiderata)
Thu Sep 28 02:19:21 1995
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 21:23:10 -0700
From: ozymandias G desiderata <ogd@organic.com>
Here's a question that's been bugging me for a while now, and I haven't yet
come across any sort of answer to it in the documentation:
How do you make objects stick around in HotJava?
Let's say somebody writes a nifty new protocol handler that, given a
particular URN, queries a server and then automatically loads the returned
URL. I would say that this new protocol handler qualifies as a significant
extension to HotJava, and is only really useful if it somehow gets
semi-permanently integrated into the browser. How do I make sure that
HotJava holds on to the object? And if the object has a particular state,
how do I make sure that the object remembers it? (I know those are two
different questions, but they seem pretty closely related.) Is there going
to be a high-level way of handling this?
More generally, how do users add new functionality to HotJava? I'm assuming
this isn't a part of the alpha browsers. Is it being considered for addition
to a later version? Extensibility seems like one of HotJava's key ways to
show off the advantages of Java.
ecstatically yrz,
ozymandias
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