Ok this is really more of Bill Burke's stuff. I was talking to him on Friday on IM.
Another idea coming from the world of CORBA is that of dynamic clients and server side servants. It seems both ideas are linked and quite simple to implement. Take my previous were we specify a stack of client side interceptors for EJB behavior. Imagine that instead of the EJB Remote we put 1- the StandardMBean interface, or any typed interface you specify to us 2- the INVOKE() at the CLIENT LEVEL (something I will cover in the class next week) then we can essentially say that you can construct your abstract invocation like we do in JBoss EJB client side interceptors, you can set you MBean target, you can set what object in cache you are talking to, you can dynamically create an invocation (which is what we do at the proxy level today) and voils dynamic clients with full invoke power. Another thing that would be interesting is exposing a rich MBeanInfo object that can describe for the client the full stack of interceptors (client and server) so that a tool can look at the MBeanInfo and understand that he is working with an assembly that essentially throws in clientcache, tx, security and server side persistence. Just advanced descriptors. Then the way the MBeanInfo is generated is that we ask the mbean and every interceptor to append it's own MBeanInfo. You describe the full flow this way assembled at run-time. It is sort of the dynamic discovery of the personality of the pipe you are talking to. I think that it will make the view of the super-server even more tangible for tools. In terms of implementation it means some work to represent in a transparent way the MBeanName and the Method, both structure are hashed equivalents today that speed up the communication but also are dependent on intermediary interceptor to work. If we are going to expose this to the client we need to be careful. Actually the method is ok as it is a translator but the String MBeanName needs to be done explicitely (so you can pass the name from the client). marcf xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Marc Fleury, Ph.D President JBoss Group, LLC xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
