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Re: Preferences API

From: Bill Shannon <bill.shannon_at_sun.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:27:07 -0700

Kedar Mhaswade wrote:
> Hi Ken,
>
> Ah, right, we need an enterprise equivalent of Java Preferences API,
> rather than inventing our own. I don't think either Java EE or GlassFish
> provides this although I imagine we need an implementation of the
> Preferences API in enterprise case rather than having a completely new
> API.
>
> TSS had this article in this regard:
> http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=47886
>
> Maybe we can leverage what they have done?

I've wanted to add something like this as a requirement for Java EE,
but it just hasn't been important enough so far. I'd love it if we
could experiment with this in GlassFish and add it as a requirement
in a future version of Java EE.