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Posted to commits@aries.apache.org by da...@apache.org on 2015/07/02 18:47:10 UTC

svn commit: r1688860 - /aries/site/trunk/content/modules/async-svcs.mdtext

Author: davidb
Date: Thu Jul  2 16:47:10 2015
New Revision: 1688860

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1688860
Log:
Add Getting Started section to the Aries Async Services page.

Modified:
    aries/site/trunk/content/modules/async-svcs.mdtext

Modified: aries/site/trunk/content/modules/async-svcs.mdtext
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/aries/site/trunk/content/modules/async-svcs.mdtext?rev=1688860&r1=1688859&r2=1688860&view=diff
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--- aries/site/trunk/content/modules/async-svcs.mdtext (original)
+++ aries/site/trunk/content/modules/async-svcs.mdtext Thu Jul  2 16:47:10 2015
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ programming in enterprise applications.
 #OSGi Promises
 
 One of the fundamental pieces of an asynchronous programming system is the *Promise*. A Promise is a holder type that 
-represents an asynchronous calcluation. Since Java 5 the JDK has contained *java.util.concurrent.Future* to perform this 
+represents an asynchronous calculation or computation. Since Java 5 the JDK has contained *java.util.concurrent.Future* to perform this 
 function. Java's Future type is, however, fatally flawed as it has no callback to notify the user when it resolves. Instead the
 user must make a blocking call to *get()*.
 
@@ -157,4 +157,11 @@ Sometimes the user does not care when a
 These sorts of calls are called "fire and forget" calls, and are also supported by the async service using the *execute()* method.
 
 The execute method still returns a promise, however this promise represents whether the fire and forget call successfully started
-or not, not whether it has completed.
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+or not, not whether it has completed.
+
+# Getting Started
+The Asynchronous Services implementation can be found in the Apache Aries codebase in the `async` directory: [https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/aries/trunk/async][1]
+
+In this location a convenient all-in-one bundle can also be found with no dependencies: the `async-all` module.
+
+  [1]: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/aries/trunk/async
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