On Feb 22, 2008, at 11:43 PM, Jacek Laskowski wrote:
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:25 PM, David Jencks
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I guess the gshell launcher should figure this stuff out. It
seems
like this is moving us from configuration back towards code which
I'm
not too thrilled about. At least the script can be in groovy.
Can you elaborate more? How? Where should I look for answers?
XML-less configuration as a groovy script is the best of two worlds -
xml and java. You don't have to write ugly xml "esseys" yet it's as
simple as xml. You can develop your apps with java and configure them
with java-like language - groovy. I think it makes the configuration
better than xml-based one. It's like maven's pom.xml in jruby, i.e.
Apache Buildr. If we could have a buildr-like configuration layer for
Geronimo I'd be more than happy.
So, step one is to turn this stuff into variables in config-
substitutions.xml. This can be done by modifying the poms building
the plugins and putting the stuff that goes into config.xml and
config-substitutions.properties in the car-maven-plugin config.
This is easy and we can do it today.
Step two is to figure out how to recognize the vm in groovy and run
some code or a script depending on the vm. The harmony vm could set
some system properties to override the appropriate variable values in
config-substitutions.properties. I'm not sure how to do either of
these.
This doesn't involve a groovy gbean builder. I'd wait for dain to
get farther with his xbean-reflect work before working a lot on that
idea. I don't know how useful it would be. It might be great or it
might be worse than xml.
thanks
david jencks
Jacek
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