+1 in general, and +1 specifically for eliminating the service name from service.xml .. DRY.
Sanjiva. On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:05 -0400, Glen Daniels wrote: > Hey folks: > > I notice that we don't seem to support exploded directories yet. Is > anyone working on this? We should be able to just drop a directory > structure like > > echo/ > META-INF/service.xml > classes/echo.class > lib/support.jar > modules/ > > underneath $AXIS/services/, and have the deployer treat it exactly the > same as if the same files were compressed into "echo.aar". > > Also, should we really have the service name in the service.xml file at > all? Why not just use the name of the directory/archive? Right now we > have an opportunity for conflicts, which would be resolved for us by the > file system if we were to simply use the file name as the service name. > It also would simplify the work a deployer needs to do, and make it > easy to rename services (just rename the dir/file). Thoughts? > > --Glen >
