At present, although the initial cut of the code is heavily MBean focussed, I (personally) hope that the JMX stuff will take second place to a more fine-tuned kernel that just exposes itself via MBean functionality.
You raise a good point that an interpretor can read out the content of the JNDI file and present a file-based view; in fact, that's one of the possible work-arounds for a JNDI view and CVS as described on the page.
Alex.
On Monday, Aug 11, 2003, at 18:33 Europe/London, Saad Rehmani wrote:
Does it make sense to think of the configuration information as residing
in a registry/tree which is facaded by mbeans?
The text file could just have an interpretor that would eventually act
as yet another client for the mbeans and spit out an updated view of the
config at the end.
Any concurrency issues can be dealt with at the mbeans / jndi / registry-implementation level as they'll have to face those anyways. They'll have to deal with those anyways.
-saad
-----Original Message----- From: Sean Hamblett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 12:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JNDI] [Config] Configuration: flat file or registry?
Alex,
I don't know if this will help, but I have been working with iPlanet/Sun ONE, and if I remember correctly (this comes from the marketing types) there is a configuration feature that allows the configuration to be in both places. The flat file is offered as a defelopment solution, and allows configurations to be shared easily between servers. I believe there is some continuity between both, where the registry can be loaded via file, and can be dumped to file. I don't know if this strategy will help, or just create noise. Sorry if the latter.
Sean
Alex Blewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I kicked off a thread suggesting configuration information may be stored in a registry-based system instead of a flat-file/xml-based format, which provoked some interesting comments and discussions.
I've created a few pages to capture this in:
http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ConfigurationAsFlatFile http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ConfigurationAsRegistry http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ApacheJ2EE/Configuration
and put comments that have been made by others in there. Ideally, I'd like people to review the first couple and add any other advantages/disadvantages/wishlist items inside there.
Thanks,
Alex.
