Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-18 Thread Peter Antman
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service Hi, have any one of you looked at XmlBlaster? (www.xmlBlaster.org). I guess it could really work as a central XmlRepository. XmlBlaster is an XML based MOM. You publish your

RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-15 Thread Hiram Chirino
for the last 6 month. A real gem. //Peter Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Peter Antman Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service Hi, have any one

Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-14 Thread Christian Riege
hi, On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 22:36, Dain Sundstrom wrote: (Don't know much about XML Schemasmaybe they address these issues?) This is what XML name spaces are for. If in ISV wants to add more config options to jboss, if jboss wants to add new options to the spec ejb-jar.xml file, we

Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-14 Thread Peter Antman
levels at different times. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:jboss-development-admin;lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Matt Munz Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 1:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service Dain, Meta

Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-14 Thread Dave Neuer
--- Christian Riege [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 22:36, Dain Sundstrom wrote: (Don't know much about XML Schemasmaybe they address these issues?) This is what XML name spaces are for. If in ISV wants to add more config options to jboss, if jboss wants

RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-14 Thread Bill Burke
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service Hi, have any one of you looked at XmlBlaster? (www.xmlBlaster.org). I guess it could really work as a central XmlRepository. XmlBlaster is an XML based MOM. You publish your XML to it and it will save it in an Xml DOM tree, even

RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-14 Thread Bill Burke
, November 13, 2002 5:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service One huge file is better than a million little files scattered across my hard drive, but that's not saying a lot. -dain Jason Dillon wrote: I would be careful about going with a huge file, these tend

Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-14 Thread Peter Antman
;lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Peter Antman Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service Hi, have any one of you looked at XmlBlaster? (www.xmlBlaster.org). I guess it could really work as a central XmlRepository. XmlBlaster

RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread James Higginbotham
Subject: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service Dain and I were IMing. He said Scott was thinking about a MetaData service... My idea for a MetaData/Configuration service would be the ability to register for callbacks based on XPATHS. So, all config of jboss would be stored in one big XML

RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Bill Burke
;lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Dain Sundstrom Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 1:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service Meta data for an invocation. What are the tx attributes? What is the security manager? What are the required roles? What is the readahead

RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Matt Munz
-admin;lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Dain Sundstrom Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 2:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service Matt Munz wrote: Dain, Meta data for an invocation. I assume you refer here to EJB/servlet invocations. No, I mean JBoss

Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Dain Sundstrom
Matt Munz wrote: Dain, Please excuse my ignorance. I'm a bit JMX-centric at the moment. I see an org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation that doesn't seem to know about / relate to org.jboss.invocation.Invocation. Obviously the names are the same. Is there any deeper relationship? Got me. I am a

RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Matt Munz
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service 1. I'm not talking about a central config file...Components register their XML with this service. MBean, EJB, whatever... 2. You know what XPATHs are right? If not, look them up. They are really cool. Xerces/Xalan (forget which) support

RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Bill Burke
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service 1. I'm not talking about a central config file...Components register their XML with this service. MBean, EJB, whatever... 2. You know what XPATHs are right? If not, look them up. They are really cool. Xerces/Xalan (forget which

RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Matt Munz
... - Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:jboss-development-admin;lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Dain Sundstrom Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 2:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service Matt Munz wrote: Dain, Please excuse my ignorance

Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Scott M Stark
: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 11:01 AM Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service 1. I'm not talking about a central config file...Components register their XML with this service. MBean, EJB, whatever... 2. You know what XPATHs are right? If not, look them up. They are really cool. Xerces

RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Matt Munz
13, 2002 2:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service BTW -- I aggree that XPath is cool. What makes a central XML file work better as a metadata database than a well-crafted object graph or relational database, in your opinion? My thinking is that a well-crafted

RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Bill Burke
-dev] Metadata Service Matt Munz wrote: Dain, Please excuse my ignorance. I'm a bit JMX-centric at the moment. I see an org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation that doesn't seem to know about / relate to org.jboss.invocation.Invocation. Obviously the names are the same. Is there any

RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Bill Burke
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service This has merit, but mbeans today do not know about XML in general, they know about attributes. Changes made to the XML config need to propagate as attribute setter invocations. Editing mbean attributes via JMX would have

Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Dain Sundstrom
Bill Burke wrote: IMHO, JMX is limiting. MBeans are declarations of object instances. standardjboss.xml, standardcmp-jdbc.xml, the new aspect configs, etc... are templates/defaultconfigs for object creations/instantiations. A major difference. Sometimes config is just config and there's

Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Holger Baxmann
I didn't know you could do that. What spec/library is this in? I want to read it. uPnP ? just a thought bax --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Are you worried about your web server security? Click here for a FREE Thawte Apache

RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Bill Burke
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:jboss-development-admin;lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Matt Munz Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 3:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service Bill, My thinking is that a well-crafted object

Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Dain Sundstrom
Bill Burke wrote: I don't like DTDs and XML schemas for the very reason that they force you to update the DTD every time a new type of configuration comes along. The Components themselves should do the validation of their particular part of the large XML file/document. Consider an ISV who wants

Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Dain Sundstrom
Bill Burke wrote: XPATHs would be a perfect fit for something like this. Why recreate? Another thing that MBeans don't seem to address is the notion of layered configuration or in other words configuration domains. Each layer can inherit/modify the configuration from a top level layer.

Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Anatoly Akkerman
Matt Munz wrote: Bill, My thinking is that a well-crafted object graph or relational db needs to be crafted and the code maintained. Most components in JBoss are configured Well, so do DTDs and XML schemas. It is an interesting argument that an XML Document object is a more flexible

Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Anatoly Akkerman
Dain Sundstrom wrote: Bill Burke wrote: XPATHs would be a perfect fit for something like this. Why recreate? Another thing that MBeans don't seem to address is the notion of layered configuration or in other words configuration domains. Each layer can inherit/modify the configuration from a

RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread philipborlin
Registry would be another way to address the problem? - Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:jboss-development-admin;lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Bill Burke Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 2:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Matt Munz
Anatoly, Actually, Jakarta JXPath can handle practically any java object graph (consisting of JavaBeans, Maps, etc. ) and traverse it via an XPATH query, so you don't have to tie yourselves to DOM objects. check out http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/jxpath/ Wow. Thanks. Coolest thing

Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Jason Dillon
I would be careful about going with a huge file, these tend to become unnamable fast. --jason On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 09:07 AM, Bill Burke wrote: Dain and I were IMing. He said Scott was thinking about a MetaData service... My idea for a MetaData/Configuration service would be

RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Matt Munz
Bill, What I was trying to suggest is that complex xml config data is modified via a file or through some Management Console at runtime. Components can register via XPATHS to listen to this changed data. They are notified and update their local config, construct new objects, whatever...

Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Dain Sundstrom
One huge file is better than a million little files scattered across my hard drive, but that's not saying a lot. -dain Jason Dillon wrote: I would be careful about going with a huge file, these tend to become unnamable fast. --jason On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 09:07 AM, Bill Burke

Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Jason Dillon
If we can add an import mechanism then we can have both. I think a small set of files is better than one big file is better than a million little files. --jason On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 02:49 PM, Dain Sundstrom wrote: One huge file is better than a million little files scattered

Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Dain Sundstrom
Agreed. Jason Dillon wrote: If we can add an import mechanism then we can have both. I think a small set of files is better than one big file is better than a million little files. --jason On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 02:49 PM, Dain Sundstrom wrote: One huge file is better than a

RE: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Hiram Chirino
IMHO, JMX is limiting. MBeans are declarations of object instances. standardjboss.xml, standardcmp-jdbc.xml, the new aspect configs, etc... are templates/defaultconfigs for object creations/instantiations. A major difference. Sometimes config is just config and there's really

Re: [JBoss-dev] Metadata Service

2002-11-13 Thread Dain Sundstrom
Hiram Chirino wrote: I like that. If it was more configurable at runtime, the JBossMQ would be able to CMP 2.0 for it's message persistence. It would configure CMP engine via API calls. Exactly -dain --- This sf.net email is sponsored