Antonio,
Sounds interesting, tell us more....
thanks,
-Linda
On 6/2/2011 10:47 AM, Antonio Goncalves wrote:
> I would like to share some thoughts with you.
>
> I've used in the past Spring Config and latelly I've attended a conference that talked about Seam Config. Clearly I can
> see the benefit of having easy configuration on the entire platform. At the moment we have ejb-jar.xml and environment
> entries to configure our EJBs. We can also use the web.xml to pass some parameters to our servlets and bits and pieces
> in the application.xml file.
>
> Why not having a seperate spec that takes inspiration from Seam Config, Spring Config and so on to be able to configure
> the entire platform (a CDI bean as well as an EJB...). Configuration will also be used for Paas purposes of course.
>
> Configuration is an important topic and developers never know where to put it : property files, XML, database, JNDI. Why
> not having a spec that specifies how configuration should work (I really like the Seam Config approach) and each spec
> could then use it to specify how to configure a specific component, as well as batch processing or Paas/Saas
> configuration...
>
> Again, my 2 cents
>
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> Antonio Goncalves
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