[4609] in java-interest
Re: Peers, Strings, Native methods
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Helck)
Tue Jan 9 12:41:04 1996
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 15:14:51 -0500
From: chris@tkna.com (Christopher Helck)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Regarding:
> > I'm confused by peers. In general yes, but more specifically by
> > AWT's pervasive notion of peers. Can someone point me to a
> > quick primer?
>
> There isn't a primer on peers (as far as I know). The peers are used
> only for implementing the AWT using native widgets, they are normally
> of no concern to AWT programmers. So unless you are implementing the
> AWT you can safely ignore them.
I just read "Design Patterns" by Geary (sp?). In it he describes a pattern that sounds exactly like peers (but I've forgotten the name of the pattern).
He indicates that this pattern is often used to isolated a windows class from
the underlying implementations.
Perhaps Arthur can tell us if this is the same concept.
In any case I think this is a great book.
Yours truly, Christopher.
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