Hi
Like you, I load only from classpath and WEB-INF
best regards
Julien
Le Tue, 20 May 2008 16:38:48 +0200, Andrus Adamchik
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit:
Wanted to check if anybody loads "cayenne.xml" and related Map and Node
XML files from locations other than default two: CLASSPATH and WEB-INF/
? More specifically:
1. anybody uses FileConfiguration?
2. anybody uses DefaultConfiguration (with 'addResourcePath' or without)
to directly reference file in the filesystem (vs. referencing resources
in classpath)?
3. anybody places DataMap / DataNode files in (jar) directories outside
of the directory where "cayenne.xml" is located?
I personally don't, as all these approaches lead to non-portable
applications that make unwarranted assumptions about the environment. I
think cases requiring to open cayenne.xml via the application UI are
special enough to warrant a custom configuration.
Some background. I am planning a rework of the config package to include
support for merging of multiple Cayenne projects into a single "virtual
project" in runtime (hence enabling multiple "persistent units" in the
app). So I am looking to simplify this task and stop supporting edge
cases that are not widely used, and also change the basic algorithm of
resolving files relative to cayenne.xml to ensure they are actually
relative to the URL within a JAR or class folder where cayenne.xml is
found (so that we can have multiple cayenne.xml files and avoid
conflicts when loading dependent XML files of those).
I think there is a lot of benefit in keeping the built-in choices of
file lookup down to just a few basic ones, and of course the users can
still write their own Configuration extensions to address non-standard
requirements.
Andrus
