Services and reloadable bean definitions

[Cantor, Scott]

On 11/11/13, 6:50 AM, "Marvin Addison" <marvin.addison at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Good question -- knew it would be asked and I didn't know the answer
>offhand. I've done some reading and code review for the
>DispatcherServlet case and it appears it's designed to continue
>processing requests while the underlying application context is
>refreshed. I simply don't see anything like an IO wait or monitor wait
>that would block requests while the context internal state is updated.
>I think some testing is in order to say for certain, but looks
>promising.

As I said in the other thread just now, I'm not opposed to this if it
works. I don't personally do reloading of anything but the filter file,
but I'm not opposed to just implementing a global reload if it works.

>I believe DispatcherServlet or a subclass is used implicitly by
>Webflow since the entry point into a flow is a HandlerAdapter
>component.

Yes, it is.

-- Scott