More DataEngines questions

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Sunday 04 January 2009, Alex Merry wrote:
> On Sunday 04 January 2009 11:29:11 Luca Beltrame wrote:
> > On domenica 4 gennaio 2009 12:03:21 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > - User puts in the term "foo" as in search term;
> > - The term "foo" is used as source in the DataEngine, which then fetches
> > the information;
> > - Said information is then presented to the user.

exactly ..

> > Am I correct? And if so, does a DataEngine keep in memory the result of
> > old sources? (asking to evaluate the performnce and resource
> > consumption).
>
> That's right.  The source is kept around for as long as there are applets
> requesting it.  Once all applets have disconnected from the source, it is
> discarded.

... automatically, of course. the DataEngine author need write no code for 
this. if you wish to do further cacheing, you can work around this feature, 
but it's generally not the common case.

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