One of our goals in this release is to provide improvements in
resource configuration and resource "definition". The intention here
is both to enable the deployment process to be further automated in
PaaS environments and to facilitate ease-of-use.
Resource definitions (for example, the DataSource definition
introduced in Java EE 6), allow an application to be deployed into the
cloud with more minimal administrative configuration, and can also
serve as "templates" for modifications and/or extensions to meet the
deployment requirements of additional tenants.
The attached document is intended as a proposal for the first step in
this process, and addresses standardization for the configuration of
application-scoped resources that are required to be provided as
part of the platform.
We would appreciate if you would review this document in detail and
post your feedback. There are a number of issues flagged in the text,
including open issues that impact on the next steps that we would
pursue in extending such configuration support to multiple tenants.
thanks,
-Linda