Thank you. It seems a good example of how *and why* to think about this stuff in a context where everything you need to know is supplied from outside, rather than going to find it out yourself. I think one problem we've had is that a concise exposition on the *why* was missing: what does all this work buy us?
Some readers are going to spot a point of confusion and ask: why do we want to start up the Configuration Service if we're going to be configured by Spring? Why do we even *have* a Configuration Service? I dunno. This needs explanation. Some readers will not be familiar with Spring, so a pointer off to a good, compact document on Spring configuration elements and their use would be welcome. I poked around a bit at springsource.com but didn't find anything I thought suitable. Somewhere, not necessarily in this article, we need a fairly extensive discussion of how we want to structure configuration of the product. We have multiple configuration sources: Spring properties, the Configuration Service (and the place(s) from which it gets external configuration data), the Servlet container (for the bits that are webapp.s). We have multiple configuration consumers: commandline app.s, webapps, and the build process. We need some exposition on when to use a particular source, and why. I expect this will require some debate among developers to reach a consensus. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected] Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart.
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