Quoth Bill Edwards - Sun BOS Software on Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:01:24PM -0400: > I will continue to look for other approaches, as I would prefer > to not have a private interface contract if it can be avoided. > So far, the only answer I can find that works is "don't do that". > This means we will simply have to pre-configure our service to > be enabled out of the box. For those environments where this > was the wrong setting, we will just be adding system overhead; > that is, starting our service when there are no applications > registered to run in it.
Well in that case it might make sense for the service to detect that there are no applications registered and disable itself. It depends on what experience makes the most sense to the administrator, I suppose. David
