hello Lez, thanks for your prompt reply!
On Tue January 6 2009 08:41:41 Les Hazlewood wrote: > > * besides the Javadoc in the org.jsecurity.web.servlet.JSecurityFilter, > > is there any additional documentation that describes how to configure > > JSecurity? if there is, a URL would be much appreciated. > > Hi Raif, > > For .ini based configuration, not at the moment. > > At least for the purpose of this email, you can consider our text-based > approach a rudimentary mechanism for dependency injection. For example: > > beanA = some.fully.qualified.ClassA > beanA.property1 = Hello World > > myBean = some.fully.qualified.Class > myBean.propertyA = $beanA ...so something similar to PropertyUtilsBean in Apache Commons BeanUtils. i was hoping for a document that describes the available/possible properties etc... of what can be configured more so than how it is configured. is it safe then to assume that the javadoc of the above class describes all the possible options? > * are there any plans, or would there be an interest, in providing a > > > configuration API, based on a W3C Schema and xml-to-Java binding > > classes, generated from Apache XMLBeans for example? > > There hasn't been any effort to move in that direction. The > configuration above (rudimentary .ini config) seems to be more desireable > and agreeable to the majority of users. A lot of us are kinda "XML'd > out" :) But if there is enough interest in the community for XML-based > config, I'm sure we would probably support it. Its just there hasn't > been anyone asking for it... noted. > Best, > > Les > > P.S. This is a little off topic but related to your first question. > Please ignore if you have no interest ;) > > It has been a desire of mine for a long time to maybe found another open > source project, say, "OGDL" that specified an "Object Graph Definition > Language" as a companion to OGNL. It would be the most concise way to > configure any DI framework - Spring, Guice, whatever. > ...[edited] no thanks :-) i'm more interested in configuration correctness than mechanisms, and de-coupling the configuration from the other life-cycle states of the objects/components. for me a schema based xml offers the best guarantees hence the question. cheers; rsn
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