http://www.donniepinkston.net/2005-12-20/over-engineering.html (there are many more like it, but this one is mine) Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:46:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.donniepinkston.net/2005-12-20/over-engineering.html#comment-3 Martin Bartlett Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:19:03 +0000 http://sloppy.cs.caltech.edu/dpdn/?p=10#comment-3 Just discovered the Closeable IF and that Sockets aren't closeable. For the former - I actually find it very useful in a mini-appserver to have a controller manage the shutdown of its components and able to close anything theyve registered as requiring tidying up - it cleans up the component implementation. Previously I did this with reflection - which sometimes threw out Security exceptions on - guess what - sockets!!! So THAT piece of code hasn't got any nicer, but the Closeable in general does have its uses. By the same token, I can see the use of Flushable by a controller that needs to flush closeable resources before closing them. Just discovered the Closeable IF and that Sockets aren’t closeable. For the former - I actually find it very useful in a mini-appserver to have a controller manage the shutdown of its components and able to close anything theyve registered as requiring tidying up - it cleans up the component implementation. Previously I did this with reflection - which sometimes threw out Security exceptions on - guess what - sockets!!! So THAT piece of code hasn’t got any nicer, but the Closeable in general does have its uses. By the same token, I can see the use of Flushable by a controller that needs to flush closeable resources before closing them.

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