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Change to the Pipe.process method

From: Kohsuke Kawaguchi <kohsuke.kawaguchi_at_sun.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:23:23 -0800

After thinking about this over the break, I decided to think that it
makes more sense for this method to be able to return null, to indicate
the absence of a response.

Previously it was required to return an "empty" message for such case,
but I think it may confuse some pipes, as such an empty message isn't
really distinguishable from a real reply that happens to be empty, which
is also valid.

I thought about having a special Message instance for such an empty
message, but I think it's just more natural to use null, especially
given that some aspects of a Message is mutable.

-- 
Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Sun Microsystems                   kohsuke.kawaguchi_at_sun.com