Allow overriding the value of an <env-entry/> from within deployment plans
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Key: GERONIMO-3954
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3954
Project: Geronimo
Issue Type: Improvement
Security Level: public (Regular issues)
Reporter: Janko Heilgeist
The provider or assembler of an JavaEE application can define environment
entries inside the standard deployment descriptor files like ejb-jar.xml or
web.xml with
{code:xml}
<env-entry>
<description>Some crucial variable!</description>
<env-entry-name>someVariable</env-entry-name>
<env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
<!--env-entry-value>content of string</env-entry-value-->
</env-entry>
{code}
Currently, the deployer of this application needs to modify the standard
deployment descriptor to set the environment entry to a value. This is a
problem, if e.g. the archive containing the descriptor file was signed by the
provider and is supposed to be used unmodified. It would be a major
improvement, if the Geronimo deployment plans would allow setting or overriding
the values of these entries.
This seems to have been the case in previous versions of Geronimo. On August
24th, 2003 the schema
incubator-geronimo/modules/core/src/schema/geronimo-ejb-jar.xsd contained the
following elements:
{code:xml}
[...]
<xsd:element name="env-entry">
<xsd:annotation>
<xsd:documentation>
Configuration for an environment entry. Normally an env-entry
is fully configured by the assembler in the standard ejb-jar.xml
deployment descriptor. However, the deployer can specify a
value here if there was no value specified in ejb-jar.xml, or
if the deployer wants to override the value specified there.
</xsd:documentation>
</xsd:annotation>
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="env-entry-name" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
<xsd:element ref="env-entry-value" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
[...]
{code}
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