dev@glassfish.java.net

Re: lopsidedness of domaindir usage?

From: Kedar Mhaswade <Kedar.Mhaswade_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:56:59 -0700

I meant "offline" to imply that user can do it via scripts, not via GUI.
People have asked for this kind of feature for quite some time.

Also, you seem to be using domain.xml for older GF releases.

Ludovic Champenois wrote:
> Kedar Mhaswade wrote:
>>
>>
>> Lloyd Chambers wrote:
>>> Ludo,
>>>
>>> AFAIK, we are *not* making domain.xml a public interface, at least
>>> that was Kedar's view.
>>
>> Users defeat everything when it comes to a text configuration file.
>> So, like it or not, domain.xml, its structure, elements etc. has become
>> our public interface. Nothing can fight with editing the text file in
>> users'
>> favorite text editor. We can't say we won't support it if you ever edited
>> the file by hand, no let's not go there.
>>
>> Situation would have been better if we had a "slick" editor/API for
>> domain.xml
>> (and possibly other files in domain) *without* a running server.
> I guess you are not using an IDE to open domain.xml for GlassFish v1 or
> v2 (dtd based).
>
> our NetBeans plugin register all the GlassFish dtds/schema so you can
> get inline xml code completion
> depending on the cursor position as well as xml validation and xml check
> (last 2 icons of the xml editor toolbar in NetBeans).
>
> Same for Eclipse as you can see in the attached images.
>
> Ludo
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe_at_glassfish.dev.java.net
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help_at_glassfish.dev.java.net