I agree with Jeremy. One other aspect to consider is that technology
is constantly changing. If we settle on terminology today that isn't
confusing for either tomcat or jetty that doesn't mean that it won't
cause confusion for container X in the future. We will never be able
to pick terms that are generic for all time, all containers, all
components. I think attempting to come up with some common terminology
will also be confusing to the user and will make it difficult to explain
concepts that are similar or very different between containers.
If we do end up with some common mapping, then I think we need to pick
the most obvious terminology for the user. Most users will consider
"host" to be the IP host name and so I think we should use that term in
general and cover the appropriate mapping to tomcat or jetty in
documentation. The user will have to coordinate settings between many
different elements and using common terms will make that much easier
than avoiding those terms because they bring specific meaning to some
particular component.
Joe
Jeremy Boynes wrote:
Aaron Mulder wrote:
I disagree -- I think it's important to have a common management
interface (currently, for example, NetworkConnector), and having the
same properties called something different in every networkable GBean
totally defeats that.
I agree a common management interface is desirable. Unfortunately the
containers we are integrating appear to have little in common. From
what I hear Jeff saying, apparently simple concepts like "host" differ.
What this means is that we will need substantial extensions to the
"common" interface to deal with these container specific concepts; the
lowest common denominator is proving to be too low.
This does mean more work for us: alternative deployment
infrastructure, alternative management APIs, multiple management
portlets, and so on. However, it provides a simple and more intuitive
interface for the user so should be done.
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Jeremy
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