[jboss-as7-dev] Default values in the model

[David Bosschaert]

On 01/08/2011 14:12, Jason T. Greene wrote:
> On 7/29/11 6:42 AM, Heiko Braun wrote:
>> Including the defaults. Going through additional hoops&  loops to figure
>> out the effective runtime configuration is counter productive
>> (curl,bash, etc) and will not be used.
>>
>> Further more, consumer do not care if the attribute derives from a
>> default value or not.
>> And why should they?
> They care if they specified or they did not.
>
I agree, people will want to see whether they specified a particular 
value or not. But in either case they probably want to see what the 
effective value is, so if the value isn't specified they will want to 
see what the default is that is currently being used as long as it's 
clear that this is the default. In past systems that I worked on this 
was reflected in the GUI somehow by making the default appear grey and 
have a 'default' icon beside it... How the GUI obtains that information 
is an implementation detail.

Cheers,

David