>>>>> On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:12:23 -0600, David Schneider <david.schneider_at_oracle.com> said:
DS> Given where we're at in the current schedule I doubt we have time to
DS> make these kinds of changes. As the original requester of the feature
DS> I'd be fine with deferring the feature to our next revision of the spec
DS> in order to give ourselves time to define an interface like I described
DS> above.
Let me cite my text from my reply to Andy's email earlier on the thread.
>>>>> On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:18:42 -0700, Edward Burns <edward.burns_at_oracle.com> said:
EB> Given this information, I'm going to apply the changes I've agreed to in
EB> this email and close this out for 2.2.
And let me also point out that this feature has 12 votes. If we want to
expose a Java API for config management, it's a much bigger issue, one
that I believe Mike Keith is taking up in his Creating a Configuration
Standard for Java EE [1] meme.
Ed
[1]
http://www.parleys.com/#id=3680&st=5