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" />
...
Don't know if it will work with spring. Try it in a working ADS
installtion and run your experiment to see.
If it works I like this reduction in noise.
(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:
Yeah you don't need to do an index for it. It can be defaulted.
...
<bean
class="org.apache.directory.server.core.partition.impl.btree.MutableIndexConfiguration">
<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?
Good idea I think we may already have this but I must confirm it.
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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?
Hmmm I don't even know what this is. I don't have any ideas on Spring
2.0. But from what I can gather from your question above it does sound
like a nice solution to use a custom ads schema.
Regards,
Alex
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