These are different for different implementations. Whether and how they are used may also depend on the configuration store and configuration that were selected when the provider was created. An implementation must ignore unknown arguments. This may entail future changes that become visible in the cache are not reflected in this view and that changes done through this view are not reflected in the cache. Only an implementation that supports service names that can be used with no further arguments support this method.
Description allows controlling or observing the lifetime of the configuration.
Note that the default provider is owned by the ServiceManager and should not be disposed of by user code. Views created by the provider generally refer to data that is managed by the provider. Therefore, disposing of the provider will cause all objects belonging to these views to be disposed of as well. This does not apply to snapshot views that have their own copy of the data, if available. Top of Page Copyright 2001 OpenOffice.org Foundation.