The more generic issue here is that there is often the desire to have a dependency on a collection of services with some quality. Examples include:
Services with network endpoints Services which interact with the filesystem access Services which write to the filesystem Its not always that there should be a true start/stop type of dependency on the services. If there was a snapshot service which periodically backedup the contents of serveral directories when the filesystem had no active writers, its not that the services which wrote to the filesystem need to be stopped. They simply need to be in a state that has no writers. Its more of a lock the snapshot service wishes to acquire and will wait until its notified that its the sole holder of the lock. The problem with trying to introduce this notion is that services are not generally written with sufficient granularity to allow facets of their behavior to be micromanged. The existing JNDI service and a desire to control when network interfaces are established is an example. The JNDI service can operation fine without an external interface, but the way its coded today, if it were to depend on a network interface barrier service to delay the creation of its remote JNDI access endpoint, the local operation mode would also be unavailable and the server startup would fail horribly as numerous services failed to access JNDI via the default InitialContext. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3864284#3864284 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3864284 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ JBoss-Development mailing list JBoss-Development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
