Or we could fix up EmbeddedDescriptor to exploit either the new or existing
constructor?
On 10 January 2011 16:41, Greg Trasuk <tras...@stratuscom.com> wrote:
> One more thing...
>
> An additional benefit is that services currently written would not have
> to be modified to provide a different constructor than the current
> non-activatable constructor.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Greg.
>
> On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 11:32, Greg Trasuk wrote:
> > How about this?
> >
> > - User includes "EasyDefaultConfig.jar" in their classpath.
> > - "EasyDefaultConfig.jar" uses the ConfigurationProvider mechanism
> > (which references a manifest entry in the jar file) to replace
> > FileConfiguration with a slightly modified subclass that reads a default
> > configuration as a resource from the classpath.
> > - Services remain coded to the current ServiceStarter API and get their
> > configuration as currently recommended through the
> > ConfigurationProvider, e.g.
> >
> > Configuration config=
> > ConfigurationProvider.getInstance("NonSecureJeri",
> > "groups=\"TEST\"");
> >
> > - "EasyDefaultConfig.jar" can contain a number of basic configurations,
> > e.g. "NonSecureJeri", "TLSJeri", "KerberosJeri", etc.
> > - Could even contain a configuration for ServiceStarter to start up the
> > usual infrastructure services (Reggie, Mahalo, etc).
> >
> >
> > That way, we allow for the fact that configuration is actually
> > complicated, but give the casual user a simple way to ignore most of it.
> >
> > If all are in favour, I can code it fairly quickly, but I'll need
> > suggestions for some basic configuration files.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Greg.
> >
> > On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 09:55, Sim IJskes - QCG wrote:
> > > On 10-01-11 15:48, Tom Hobbs wrote:
> > > > Is this part of the wider work discussed ages ago about supplying
> more
> > > > configuration options? POJOs, Groovy classes etc?
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Sim IJskes - QCG<s...@qcg.nl>
> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> When can use ServiceStarter with an in memory (=String)
> Configuration file.
> > > >> Any ideas for a ConfigurationBuilder that newcomers can use to get
> flying
> > > >> easily?
> > >
> > > Not sure. More of an autodeploy option. First we let newcomers to the
> > > technology code a client and a service. In the main method they
> > > instanciate the AutoConfigurer (or similar) set a few booleans, maybe a
> > > hostname or a prefered port, and off they go.
> > >
> > > Run service, run client, Peng! River is running! Kapow!
> > >
> > > Look ma, no config files.
> > >
> > > Gr. Sim
> > >
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