You are correct. See http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/trunk/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/service/EmbeddedCassandraService.javaand http://prettyprint.me/2010/02/14/running-cassandra-as-an-embedded-service/
afaik currently only a configuration file is supported, although with the next release the actual schema can be controlled programatically. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Yan Virin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I understand that currently one must have the configuration file in place > in > order to start a cassandra node(even if it is embedded in the application, > i.e. using only StorageProxy without CassandraServer). > Is that correct? > It would be practical and very easy to implement a "programmable" > configuration object(like making it possible to create an instance of > DataBaseDescriptor instance not from a file) in order to make it possible > to > fully embed cassandra instance into custom application. > > Thanks > > -- > Jan Virin > http://www.linkedin.com/in/yanvirin >
