2009/10/1 Jonathan Robie <[email protected]> > Robert Godfrey wrote: > >> The fundamental problem (IMHO) is that queue and exchange configuration is >> ill-suited to being in a hand editable config file. My understanding is >> that the C++ broker stores this info in a database and you use tools to >> manage it. >> >> > > I think there are advantages to a human-readable representation that is > easily exchanged and easily changed. I think that file could be designed > better, either in XML or in some other format (e.g. Google Protocol > Buffers). > > Anyway - for the moment I suggest we just make queue and exchange >> consistent(ly ugly) ... pending a more thorough fixing of the Java Broker >> configuration... >> >> > > My vote would be to use names as data, not as metadata, in the short term > fix ;-> >
Well - given that the Queue configuration works...we have lots of people using it... etc... I'm less inclined to change that than to change the configuration which is broken and no-one uses :-) I agree that it's a particularly unlovely way of using XML... however I would rather fix config more generally and do it once, rather than breaking it for people twice -- Rob
