Hi, I think that having external MBean descriptors (XML here) is a very good idea - especially that you can make managable the objects which may not be JMX-aware - not the case for Standard MBeans.
However I think that it would great to have a way to specify also mbean/attribute/etc... descriptions outside the mbeans-descriptors file. Two reasons for that: 1-you may want to have them localized, 2-for some kind of automatic UI generation, you may want to use more complicated formatting (which is not possible for XML attributes). So for example we could have an optional mbean/attribute/operation/etc... attribute like descriptionID or descriptionKey which would refer to a message in a resource bundle (did I say sandbox resources here? :-))). Finally we could instruct the class creating the MBean descriptor to look for this external description if available. cheers, Slawek __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
