Hi all, Chris Custine and David Jencks have been advising the removal of the configuration beans to directly wire up components in the server. I think they're right after seeing just how many problems the present configuration bean setup causes. Also this will not happen immediately if it does in one shot. The progression will be gradual.
However doing this has a huge impact and I want everyone to be aware of them. First and foremost the way users embed the server will change. The server.xml file will completely change as well so this may disappoint our users who have been using 1.5.x releases since they are more stable than 1.0.x even though 1.5.x is labeled as experimental. So it is obvious from a technical standpoint that this must be done. The remaining question is when. Should we just get 2.0 out ASAP so users have something and start immediately on a 2.5? So this is a question that our users and team must answer. If yes then we need to figure out what to stuff into 2.0 before it goes out. We can even start 2.5 in a separate branch before 2.0 is out the door if people want to just go hog wild with these changes yet brace our users from them. Thoughts? Alex
