From: Werner Keil <werner.keil_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:49:49 +0100

And in the spirit of PaaS you probably wanna include
serverName="${myServername}"
instead of
serverName="localhost"
too?[?]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Antonio Goncalves <
antonio.goncalves_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Not sure about the ALIAS= syntax. What about the good old EL ? I agree
> with Jevgeni, we've already talked about configuration issues in EE. It has
> to go further not just restricted to passwords. What about :
>
> @DataSourceDefinition(name="*${myDataSource}*",
> className="com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource",
> user="*${myUserId}*",
> password="*${password}*",
> databaseName="*${dbName}*",
> serverName="localhost",
> portNumber=3306 )
>
> Sorry if I didn't understand well but passwords are just one of the many
> possible configuration on an EE app. The fact that it's encrypted makes it
> slightly different but we could treat it in a different way. Something like
> password="*${aClearPassword}*" and password="*
> ${encrypted(anEncryptedPassword}*".
>
> Antonio
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 09:45, Jevgeni Kabanov <jevgeni_at_zeroturnaround.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Is there a reason it is limited to passwords? I'm sure a generic ${}
>> Ant-style configuration string post-processing would be greatly
>> appreciated by the community.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 31.01.2012, at 0:49, Bill Shannon <bill.shannon_at_oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I've uploaded a proposal from our security team for password aliasing
>> > support in Java EE 7. Let me know if you have any comments.
>> >
>> >
>> http://java.net/projects/javaee-spec/downloads/download/password-aliasing-ee7-proposal.pdf
>>
>
>
>
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