[x ] <ejb-name> should be restricted as above ONLY for CMP 2.0 Entity Beans There really is no point to restricting the names in other contexts that I can see as it will only introduce compatibility problems.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Scott Stark Chief Technology Officer JBoss Group, LLC xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Riege" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "JBoss Dev list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 4:29 AM Subject: [JBoss-dev] Restricting <ejb-name> values > Hi everyone, > > I'm currently working on resolving Bug #613360 (see > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=376685&aid=613360&group_id=22866 ). > > I have an implementation issue with the EJB Spec Section 10.6.14: > > "The Bean Provider should not use reserved identifiers as ejb-names or > abstract-schema-names. Reserved identifiers are discussed in Section > 11.2.6.1." > > Even more restrictive is section 10.3.13: > > "The ejb-name must be a valid Java identifier" > > This explicitly disallows something which is quite popular today, e.g. > > <ejb-name>org/jboss/ABean</ejb-name> > > Thus possibly a lot of deployments will break. > > If you take the spec literally this only applies to CMP 2.0 Entity Beans > (the other sections don't talk about <ejb-name> element a lot, the DTD > only talks about <ejb-name> being restricted to the XML 1.0 'NMTOKEN' > specification). > > I need a handcount as to how restrictive should JBoss be, please check > one of the options below: > > [ ] <ejb-name> should be restricted as specified above for ALL EJB's > > My vote is to enforce these restrictions for ALL beans. A lot easier to > implement and it has the advantage of being consistent throughout JBoss. > Consistency is a Good Thing(tm). > > Regards + thanks for your input, > Christian ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development