On Apr 3, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Lloyd Chambers wrote:
> Instead of visibility why not something like @Domain which indicates
> the context root? Then we'd have a generic scoping mechanism:
>
> http://localhost:8080/__asadmin/....
> http://localhost:8080/__private/....
> http://localhost:8080/__mygoodies/....
that's exactly what happens behind de scene.
what difference does it make if it is triggered by @Domain versus
@Visibility. Is this just a question of naming convention ?
>
> Lloyd
>
> On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Jerome Dochez wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> Hong asked me if we could add the ability to have private commands
>> to v3. Private commands are remote commands that can be used by our
>> tools like jsr88client, IDE tools, and GUI but users would not have
>> access to using the normal CLI client. The point is not to protect
>> or securely prevent commands to be executed by random users, it's
>> simply about obfuscating them so users don't access them innocently
>> as they won't be supported across releases. Please note that the
>> current mechanism could be extended to secure invocations but I
>> think it's an overkill at this point.
>>
>> I have just added the feature so to define a new private command
>> you just need to annotate your AdminCommand implementation with
>> @Visibility annotation and let the system do the rest.
>>
>> example :
>>
>> @Service(name="my-private-command")
>> @Visibility(Private.class)
>> public class MyPrivateCommand implements AdminCommand {
>> ...
>> }
>>
>> So far there are only two types of visibility defined in the system
>>
>> @Visibility(Public.class)
>> @Visibility(Private.class)
>>
>> we could add more to bind commands to even stricter clients like
>> for instance @Visbility(MySuperTool.class) but I don't think we
>> will have to go that far. If you don't annotate your AdminCommand
>> implementation it gets the default visibility of Public.
>>
>> If you try to invoke a private command from the asadmin CLI, you
>> will get a disappointing result but feel free to try. Private
>> commands are available on a different context root than the one
>> used by the CLI.
>>
>> Let me know if you have any questions.
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> Lloyd Chambers
> lloyd.chambers_at_sun.com
> GlassFish Team
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