I Agree 100%

Symbolic names are definitely a good idea.

Mike

Scott M Stark wrote:
> Yes that is correct. Changing one name in a well known file
> vs changing 20 names, several of which where in archives
> is a lot easier. Come on, the time you spent fixing the testcases
> would have been at least an order of magnitude less. It actually
> would have been zero because I would have just changed the
> mapping and not cared who was referencing the security manager.
> 
> Independent of the ease of change, the point here is why even
> impose an object naming convention that we don't really care
> about on the end user.
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Jencks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 7:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [JBoss-user] MBean interfaces to EJBs
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> 
> 
>>To make sure I understand what you are proposing...
>>
>>a global set of
>>
>><symbolic-name> == <ObjectName>
>>
>>and with
>><depends [optional-attribute-name="blah"]>some-string</depends>
>>
>>some-string is first looked up in the table as a symbolic name, and only
> 
> if
> 
>>not found we try to use it as an object name.
>>
>>This would certainly make changing the <ObjectName> half easier, but
>>changing the symbolic-name would be just as hard.
>>
>>This certainly wouldn't be hard to do, I'm still thinking about my opinion
>>on whether it would overall reduce complexity and maintenance.  I didn't
>>find changing the object name for the DefaultDS all that hard.
>>
>>thanks
>>david jencks
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