The general issue, which requires discussion, is how to handle this
facility.
Expand it? Restrict it to specific attributes?
It's causing me a big headache in AMX...
On Apr 18, 2008, at 5:10 PM, Lloyd L Chambers wrote:
> Byron,
>
> Thanks. To my knowledge, there is no documentation as to how this is
> specified to work. We should settle on something and make sure it's
> implemented that way (eg we need an asarch meeting, etc).
>
> In my view, the substitution should be more widely available, or
> made very explicit.
>
> Lloyd
>
> On Apr 18, 2008, at 3:15 PM, Byron Nevins wrote:
>>
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>> Lloyd L Chambers wrote:
>>> I'm hoping someone has extant knowledge about how our variable-
>>> subsitution works.
>>>
>>> If a domain.xml attribute has a value like $
>>> {com.sun.aas.installRoot} or ${foo.bar}, what is the algorithm for
>>> resolving that to an actual value? (And where is the code that
>>> does it?)
>> org.glassfish.config.support.TranslatedConfigView
>>> My assumption is that the algorithm looks for values in this
>>> order, but I might be mistakeN:
>>>
>>> 1. System.getProperty( "com.sun.aas.installRoot" )
>>>
>>> 2. a <system-property name="com.sun.aas.installRoot " value=...">
>>> in an enclosing scope (eg <config> or <server> or <domain>.
>>>
>> com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.SystemTasks
>>> Right? Wrong? Something else also?
>> Right. Wrong. SystemTasks looks in <server> and <config>. It
>> does not look in <domain>. Should it?
>>
>> It does it in a non-ideal way -- it sets the <system-property>'s in
>> d.x to System Properties
>>
>>
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