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David Jencks commented on GERONIMO-556:
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thanks to Sandip Ghayal for suggesting this feature.

> Optional resource refs
> ----------------------
>
>          Key: GERONIMO-556
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-556
>      Project: Apache Geronimo
>         Type: New Feature
>   Components: deployment
>     Reporter: David Jencks
>     Assignee: David Jencks

>
> Right now, all resource refs (and other jndi entries) specified in a spec-dd 
> must be resolved during deployment or building the configuration will fail.  
> It's possible that some resource refs are optional and that the app can 
> function to  some extent with them missing.
> We could support this by including an optional "optional" marker in the 
> geronimo plan. The simplest implementation would attempt to resolve the ref 
> to an object name present during deployment, and use it if the name is found, 
> and bind nothing if the name is not found.  Then the app would get a naming 
> exception at runtime if it tried to look up the missing resource.
> We should decide what should happen when the entire target object name is 
> supplied.  We could use it to bind a reference, or only bind a reference if 
> the gbean is present at deploy-time.

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