Hi,
I'm Karthik. I've been working with Jakarta libraries and tools for quite
some time (including ex. Jakarta projects such as Tomcat, Ant and Struts).
I've also used commons HTTPClient, logging and DBCP.
Coming to the idea, as a person who uses JDBC, I found it very difficult to
handle the reconfiguration of database connectivity for applications without
having to recompile them. (JNDI configuration was probably the only other
way to go!) Hence, I decided to work out a set of configuration and
instancing classes that load and configure connectivity through a
generalized, extensible framework.
I've currently started off, and have a working sample framework for doing
this. I've felt that it would be a great idea, if I could work on this more,
and contribute it to the Jakarta project, as a small and useful component.
I'm indicating the intended usage of connectivity here:
Configurator mConfig=new PropertyConfigurator();
//or: Configurator mConfig=new XMLConfigurator();
mConfig.configure(ConnectionManager.getInstance());
mCon=ConnectionManager.getInstance().getDefaultConnection();
mCon1=ConnectionManager.getInstance().getConnection("MySQLDBCP");
mCon2=ConnectionManager.getInstance().getConnection("Oracle");
mCon3=ConnectionManager.getInstance().getConnection("OracleJNDI");
Currently, I've put up fully functional (although WIP) components (source
and binary), which allow you a common configuration to connect through JDBC,
JNDI DataSources and DBCP BasicDataSources.
http://guilt.bafsoft.net/downloads/wip/
I was working on Eclipse, and I'm moving the project build process to maven.
Please let me know about this idea. I'm be willing to contribute my best,
given a chance.
--
Karthik
