Re: continuations howto / tutorial / information?

>
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm totally new to this group and RIFE. I found some information about
> RIFE continuations and I'm trying to know more about them to be able
> to apply them to a standalone (and totally unrelated to a web
> application) piece of software.
> My understanding is that continuations in RIFE can be used by non-web
> applications and so far everything I've read seems to indicate this is
> what I need, but I'm having a hard time finding some "getting started"
> kind of documentation.
>
> To give you a 10000ft view of the problem I'm trying to solve, I'm
> trying to refactor an API so that instead of using the listener/
> observer approach it's all sequential and using return types and/or
> exceptions.
>
> Instead of ....
>
> myWorker.do(action, myListener);
>
> ...and....
>
> class MyListener implements Listener {
> public void actionFinished(Result r)
> {
>  //continue execution here
> }
> }
>
> ...I want to do this...
>
> Result r = myWorker.do(action);
> //continue execution here
>
>
> I hope this makes sense.
> Could anybody point me to the right tutorial / manual / testcase to
> get myself started? Remember this is totally non web related; there
> isn't even a GUI involved. I'm just trying to refactor an asynchronous
> API into a synchronous one but without wasting resources by making my
> Threads sleep/wait.
>
> thanks,
>
> Horaci
>
> >