files attached...
Ken Paulsen wrote:
>
> I decided to see how hard it was to define a new backing store... it's
> not. See attached .jar file w/
> META-INF/services/java.util.prefs.PreferencesFactory file, which
> points to the Preferences Factory. The factory instantiates the
> "MyPreferences" object, which controls where how preferences are
> persisted and all other features. My impl simply stores the data in
> HashMaps and does not bother to persist anything or worry about
> synchronization. It does demonstrate that the default behavior of
> writing to the register or filesystem does NOT happen.
>
> To run:
>
> 1) Copy KensPrefs.jar and Pref.class into "."
> 2) java -classpath KensPrefs.jar:. Pref add foo bar
>
> You can omit the "-classpath KensPrefs.jar" part to see the "default"
> behavior which will persist the info in your ~/.java/.userPrefs/*
> directory (or windows registry on windows -- possibly another location
> on other OS's).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
>
> Ken Paulsen wrote:
>>
>> +1
>>
>> Kedar, Lloyd, Byron, (others?): perhaps we can organize a meeting to
>> discuss this? I can meet tomorrow afternoon or anytime Monday.
>> After that I'm out for a week.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> Bill Shannon wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
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