It probably should be... or rather a framework for taking xml desciptors and turning them into metadata objects. That requires a lot more thought and planning.
--jason Scott M Stark wrote: >Then why isn't the metadata part of the core deployment api? >The ejb specific metadata can't be specific to a particular ejb >plugin as its used by other deployers. > >xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Scott Stark >Chief Technology Officer >JBoss Group, LLC >xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jason Dillon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Scott M Stark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 12:41 AM >Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] CVS update: jboss/src/main/org/jboss/deployment >DeploymentInfo.java > > >>> >>>What are you talking about here? Why doesn't navigation of the >>>deployment information have any business in the deployment >>>structures? >>> >>This is EJB specific and requires the ApplicationMetaData and >>BeanMetaData classes, which then need other classes and such. I think >>that this could probably be cleaned up, but that will require much more >>work. >> >>>What is the seperation that you are looking form? >>> >>I am seperating the core, which is everything that is setup and started >>from Server, minus the bits deployed from the current jboss-service.xml. >> >>DeploymentInfo is a core component to the core deployment framework >>(MainDeployer + SARDeployer) and it does not and should not know about >>plugin specific deployment bits. This helps keep the core simple and >>cleanly seperated from what are simply plugins... ejb is a plugin... so >>is the tm and so on. >> >>The only place where there was a problem seperating things was here and >>the simpilest thing todo was to move this code to the only place that >>was using it. Later we can figure out how to clean up this. My mail on >>DeploymentManager (or rather DeploymentFactory) and Deployment are aimed >>at just this... providing an interface for plugging into the core >>deployment system and allowing deployment specific methods (helpers as >>they may be) with out causing seperation problems. >> >>--jason >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Jboss-development mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development > _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development