I think at this point we just need to understand more to assess whether
this would be feasible in the limited time we have. Maybe a brief
informal description with examples would be better than a detailed proposal
at this stage?
Reza Rahman wrote on 07/11/11 08:26 AM:
> Linda/Bill,
>
> What is the practical possibility we can include this in Java EE 7? If
> you are still seriously considering it, I have some time now to put
> together a detailed proposal (the time window will not last long). One
> important part of an XML configuration revamp would be to load properly
> files and system/environment variables from EL (that might be important
> to add to EL regardless of this).
>
> Thanks,
> Reza
>
>
> On 6/6/2011 6:01 PM, Linda DeMichiel wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>> --
>>> Antonio Goncalves
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>>>
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>>
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