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 _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development