On 4/21/2011 3:09 PM, Hong Zhang wrote:
> Hi, Tom
> We have been using ServerEnvironment.isDas API, the underlying
> implementation is checking the server type.
Thanks. Yes, this is the API for reading #2 below.
Tom
>
> - Hong
>
> On 4/21/2011 3:57 PM, Tom Mueller wrote:
>> I've been looking into how a DAS determines that it's a DAS, and I'm
>> seeing some different approaches:
>>
>> 1. Calling Server.isDas() - this method looks at the instance name;
>> if it's "server" then return true.
>>
>> 2. Using the "-type" argument that is passed when the JVM is
>> launched. start-domain passes in DAS, start-local-instance passes in
>> INSTANCE.
>>
>> 3. Calling Server.getName() and doing the comparison to "server"
>> directly, rather than calling isDas().
>>
>> Do you know of other ways that code determines whether it is running
>> on the DAS?
>>
>> I'd like to move in the direction of consolidating this behavior, so
>> that we have exactly one way of determining the role that the server
>> is filling. Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Tom
>>