Hi Eric,

 yeah I think 'we' are happy with that. We will even need to change
all the file://conf stuff in other configuration files too.

Bye,
Norman


2010/5/9 Eric Charles <[email protected]>:
> Hi Norman,
>
> I will do, but I think this is a partial solution.
> Administrator will still have replace in spring-beans.xml file://conf/ with
> classpath:
> Are we happy with that ?
>
> Tks,
>
> Eric
>
>
> On 05/09/2010 03:33 PM, Norman Maurer wrote:
>>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> I had a quick look and it seems to make sense. could you create a jira
>> issue and attach it there...
>>
>> Thx,
>> Norman
>>
>> 2010/5/9 Eric Charles<[email protected]>:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Norman,
>>>
>>> I made a first approach making SpringConfigurationRegistry abstract with
>>> 2
>>> implementations (SpringFileConfigurationRegistry and
>>> SpringClasspathConfigurationRegistry).
>>> I first wanted to use composition, but this would have asked too much
>>> refactoring, so I used inheritance.
>>>
>>> The classpath loader still does not work, as there is at least 3
>>> file://conf
>>> definitions in spring-beans.xml. We could ask the administrator to change
>>> these, but I find that tedious.
>>> This is why I would rather think to a global setting in James.xml or
>>> spring-beans.xml that would define the resource loading type. In this
>>> case,
>>> the attached patch can be forgotten.
>>>
>>> Tks in advance for your comments on the attached patch (will be removed
>>> from
>>> the james list, so I copied you).
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/08/2010 05:28 AM, Norman Maurer wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Eric,
>>>
>>> I like your idea about loading every config from classpath. I think
>>> you are right, we should change it. About the proposed fallback
>>> strategy I'm not sure. I think we should not try to mix up things to
>>> much. Just let use add two different ConfigurationRegistry
>>> implementations. One for classpath and one for file, so if someone
>>> needs to load things from files he could just swap them out.
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>> Norman
>>>
>>>
>>> 2010/5/5 Eric Charles<[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> To run james in my ide (eclipse), I copied config files from
>>>> server/spring-deployment/src/main/config/james to a directory called
>>>> conf
>>>> a
>>>> level upon the root of my project.
>>>> The resource loading via the file://conf was ok.
>>>>
>>>> After, I wanted to load via classpath to have smoother intergration in
>>>> my
>>>> ide and also thinking to later integration with 3rd parties (simply
>>>> using
>>>> james jars with embedded resources).
>>>>
>>>> I changed all needed file://conf/ to classpath: in the xml files
>>>> (spring-beans,...).
>>>> I also had to change in SpringConfigurationRegistry.
>>>>
>>>
>>> getForComponent line 56
>>>
>>>>
>>>> from
>>>>            Resource r =der.getResource("file://conf/" + name + ".xml");
>>>> to
>>>>            Resource r =der.getResource("classpath:" + name + ".xml");
>>>>
>>>> I looked for a system-wide configuration (in James.xml or whatever) that
>>>> would allow to define the way resources are loaded (file or classpath)
>>>> but
>>>> didn't find anything.
>>>>
>>>> One way to tackle this would be first try on file://conf and rather than
>>>> throwing directly the RegistryException, still give a try to classpath.
>>>> In case of duplicate config present (file + classpath), the file would
>>>> take
>>>> the precedence, discarding the classpath.
>>>> You could have a default classpath config, and simply override some via
>>>> file.
>>>>
>>>> On pom.xml, we could also add the following (direct ide setup after mvn
>>>> eclipse:eclipse).
>>>>
>>>> <build>
>>>> <resources>
>>>> <resource>
>>>> <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
>>>> </resource>
>>>> </resources>
>>>> ....
>>>>
>>>> In a first instance, for mvn package, everything could remain as such
>>>> (all
>>>> files copied to conf).
>>>>
>>>> Any comment?
>>>> Tks,
>>>>
>>>> Eric
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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