Hi!
I was on vacation over the weekend and had an idea about how to improve our
configuration mechanism. I hacked the idea while flying back from Cologne and
now all is working again.
The change is actually not really big, I just like to get rid of our
openwebbeans-*.properties and replace them with the following mechanism:
There are still multiple property files for the same configuration, thus still
allowing 'overriding' a configuration. But instead of manually looking for
defined 'extensions' I just define a 'configuration.ordinal' inside the property
thus I define
webbeans-impl/ openwebbeans.properties with 'configuration.ordinal=10'
webbeans-web/ openwebbeans.properties with 'configuration.ordinal=11'
webbeans-jsf/ openwebbeans.properties with 'configuration.ordinal=12'
If a properties file doesn't define 'configuration.ordinal' then a value of 100
is assumed.
The algorithm is easy:
.) load all properties you can find with the name
.) sort them via configuration.ordinal in ascending order
.) overload them as we do already, but instead of some defined names we now
just
use the sorted list of properties.
WDYT?
It's all ready to get checked in :)
LieGrue,
strub
