On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:51 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: > Hi, > > Reading this sentence in > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/Service+Engine+Guide > <<Services which are used in different applications can be defined only once > by creating Global Service Definition files or services specific to an > application can be restricted and available only to that application.>> and > considering https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-865, I wonder 2 things > > 1. Should we not remove the reference to Global Service Definition since it's > never used OOTB, and a bit confusing since anyway services defined by > components are also reacheable outside those components?
This is backwards. The global service definitions are ALWAYS used in the OOTB code, not never. > a. Corollary: should we not remove the resource-loader element from > serviceengine.xml since it's broken for more than 3 years? In what way is it broken? > 2. Is it still possible to restrict services to an application, and if yes > how? Else I will remove the whole sentence, it's just confusing. Yes, it is possible, but not used much. A WEB-INF directory can have a services.xml file in it, etc, etc. I'd recommend not starting to remove that unless you plan to really get into it. However, if we did that it would solve some issues with the service dispatcher, and we could move to a model of having one dispatcher per delegator (instead of per webapp, plus per delegator for other things, plus funny special ones scattered around with fixed names that cause problems with multiple delegators). -David
