[jboss-dev] Changing meta data runtime

[Jason T. Greene]

Carlo de Wolf wrote:
> Do we want to keep the functionality of changing meta data runtime?
> 
> http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4255672

While interesting, I don't think this feature is all that useful with 
annotations. If an annotation refers to a programmatic concept (as most 
annotations in EJB), then the deployment has to be redeployed anyway. 
Also, the user still has to update the source to make it a long term 
change. If the annotation refers to an actual administration 
configuration concept (say security domain like in the test), then 
specifying it by annotation is sketchy to begin with, and should just be 
a default. The configuration for such a thing, being a capability an 
admin controls, should have a very loose association (if at all) with an 
annotation. They should not need to specify an annotation name to 
control this, and it doesn't make a lot of sense for the code to read 
such a config value via an annotation name either, as that interface is 
overly constrained.

It seems a better way to support this would be to just provide a profile 
service management method to change the domain, which is responsible for 
pushing it to the security interceptor.

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Jason T. Greene
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