Re: Resources - Custom URL scheme for unified access

2012-10-09 Thread Mark Thomas
On 09/09/2012 20:13, Mark Thomas wrote: This is issue e) in Konstantin's comments in TOMCAT-NEXT.txt snip / I think this boils down to Is there a requirement for a scheme that provides unified URLs? While it does hide the details of where stuff is from an application, if does so with a layer

Re: Resources - Custom URL scheme for unified access

2012-10-09 Thread Remy Maucherat
On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 22:19 +0100, Mark Thomas wrote: If we do go this route I'd like to change the scheme from jndi:// to tomcat://. This is for several reasons: - I believe there was a complaint that jndi:// clashed with another component. - It makes clear the old and the new are very

Resources - Custom URL scheme for unified access

2012-09-09 Thread Mark Thomas
This is issue e) in Konstantin's comments in TOMCAT-NEXT.txt Copying Konstantin's notes: Goodies: - Uniform URL space. Both files and directories can be represented, hiding details of aliases, resource jars, etc. - It hides implementation details. - Permissions can be