I think James Strachan and Dain Sundstrom have cooked up some stuff
that automatically generates schemas for each bean and then lets you
use that customized xml for your spring configuration. It's
somewhere in the xbean project inside geronimo. I'll try to find out
more if there's interest. I'm pretty sure activeMQ is using this
for its configuration. From what I've heard its a big improvement
over normal spring configuration.
thanks
david jencks
On Jan 9, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Stefan Zoerner wrote:
Hi all!
There is some criticism about configuration complexity of ApacheDS,
especially from people who argue after a first glance at it. The
verbosity is mostly driven by the Spring Framework.
Here are three ideas I had:
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1) Simplify default server.xml by using another property setting style
Currently, the server.xml seems to favor this style (example):
...
<bean id="systemPartitionConfiguration" class="...">
<property name="name"><value>system</value></property>
<property name="cacheSize"><value>100</value></property>
<property name="suffix"><value>ou=system</value></property>
...
Is there any reason why not to use this style:
...
<bean id="systemPartitionConfiguration" class="...">
<property name="name" value="system" />
<property name="cacheSize" value="100" />
<property name="suffix" value="ou=system" />
...
(quite easy to achieve. I volunteer, if nobody contradicts that
this is a (rather small) imrovement)
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2) Reduce length of partition configuration
Currently, partition configuration are very long, mostly because of
the many many indices for internal attributes:
...
<bean
class="org.apache.directory.server.core.partition.impl.btree.MutableIn
dexConfiguration">
<property
name="attributeId"><value>1.3.6.1.4.1.18060.0.4.1.2.1</value></
property>
<property name="cacheSize"><value>100</value></property>
</bean>
(many others follow, in each partition the same
...
If it is highly recommend to use these indices, how about having a
special IndexConfiguration as a default, which only has to be
extended in order to adjust it to your needs?
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3. Define our own tags for configuration with the help XML Schema-
based configuration introduced in Spring 2.0. This is more a long
term option. But I think the idea is promising.
What do you think?
Greetings,
Stefan
