OK, given the title of this thread, am I the only one who's featuring a 
bunch of people developing J2EE programs on vt100 terminals? OK, that's 
a bit ridiculous - XTerms I suppose anyway.


Dain Sundstrom wrote:
> Jules Gosnell wrote:
> 
>> OK - that's not so bad. I can interface Jetty to it - no problem.
> 
> 
> 
> Well that's one vote.  We'll have to wait to see if everyone else agrees.
> 
> 
>> I'm still a little concerned about this centralisation creeping 
>> outwards. Are ports the only resource over which different instances 
>> of JBoss running on the same box are likely to collide ?
> 
> 
> 
> I think so, but I don't know.
> 
> 
>> We should also bear in mind that certain services are usually expected 
>> on particular ports. Reconfiguring the client side to know where the 
>> new port is may be just as important as telling the server side where 
>> to listen.
> 
> 
> 
> I would also like to add server pushed client-side configuration for 
> stuff like ENC, security config, ports, etc..  For all I know it could 
> already be there.  For now, they would have to configure the client by 
> hand.

One very common case is where the client is a browser - the 'config' is 
part of the URL.

> 
> 
>> You port service will need to allocate/deallocate and lookup ports 
>> (and throw PortAlreadyAllocated and NoSuchPort Exceptions). Or is this 
>> becoming too complicated ?
> 
> 
> 
> Much simpler. It just returns you a port number (int).  The service 
> would have to de allocate the port on shutdown (the port service could 
> listen for destroy life cycle event).

It has to be able to map the service name to the port in a deterministic 
fashion, right? Otherwise it's practically useless (stick a random 
number generator in there and you've done noone any good - you couldn't 
even use that for development)

-danch


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