I also had to do some hacking of my own that would probably make you guys puke with disgust :-). Basically I have dependencies between a couple of components and if one of these components does not configure or startup correctly, I needed that component to tell the container to not service anything, and on top of that I needed the container to provide the 'user' with a message as to why it cannot service anything. For example, if the JDBC pool component cannot establish a connection, then my persistence component certainly won't work. So instead of throwing null pointer or 'cannot locate component' or some such message that requires a lot of digging in a log file, the container just says 'could not get a connection to DB', or something like that. I understand that Merlin and Phoenix have dependency capabilities, but I just didn't like the deployment aspect of them. Too 'ejb' like, i.e. separate jars, sars, blocks or whatever.
Someone mentioned the roles file as well. My only real beef with that is that I never found any real good docs on how to use it. An example here or there, none of which worked for me because they were out of date or whatever. But, once I got it working, i've never had to mess with it again.
Anyway, my .02. Robert
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