[Erp5-dev] HowToUseTheCmfActivityTool r40

[Bartek Gorny]

On 13 April 2010 04:48, Yoshinori Okuji <yo at nexedi.com> wrote:
> BTW, I think it is bad that the terminology is often confused even by people
> in Nexedi. "Activity" is an agent / engine planning and executing objects
> (e.g. SQLDict). Objects are activated, then they become "Active Objects". But
> I see people mistakenly calling active objects "activities" - this kind of
> confusion is quite dangerous when teaching. Note that this terminology is not
> specific to ERP5. In fact, "Active Object" is a well-known design pattern in
> distributed computing.

In this case, it is probably because of the "Activities" tab in
portal_activities, which says:

Queued Activities

Warning: Invoking or canceling activities will invoke/cancel all
activities with both the same path and the same method_id.

Warning: Invoking an activity will not run any dependency check.

Bartek


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> YO
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