How to make the cleanest code when reporting progress to a user?

Question

I\'ve struggled for the last couple of months to come up with some clean code to report progress to a user. Everything always seems to boil down to:

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Answer 1

It depends how much config is needed on the fly, I would expect the code to be very general, and have the tasks be setup via spring or any ioc container.

This would all be in a spring config: The xml config would supply the task object with its name and parameters. then add these tasks to a collection, and hand that collection to the taskrunner.

The task runner is then code that signals the stop and start of each task, but each task then is free to give specific status of how it is going. Also the taskrunner will catch any exceptions and keep going if something errs out. It could be made configurable to say that certain tasks depend on the completion of others, and some tasks should halt everything if they fail.

I disagree that AOP should be used here. overkill.