[jboss-user] [JBoss Remoting Development] New message: "Remoting 3: "groupName" -> "instanceName"?"

[David Lloyd]

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A new message was posted in the thread "Remoting 3: "groupName" -> "instanceName"?":

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Author  : David Lloyd
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While starting to develop Remoting 3 services in earnest, it occurs to me that the term "group name" is a bit confusing.  It identifies a unique instance of a service within an endpoint more than anything.  So I'd like to put the idea of changing this method name on the table, before we lock in to a final release in AS.
 
The reason "group name" was chosen was that it was intended that same-named instances of services located on different endpoints could act as a "group" of which the service is a member.  However in most actual use cases I think this is going to be a secondary application; generally the name will be used to distinguish between more than one instance of the same service type on a single endpoint.
 
The change is mainly a documentation-only change, however a few public members are affected.  The get/setGroupName methods in the service builder and service listener APIs would be renamed, and the ServiceURI.getGroupName() and validateGroupName() methods would be renamed.  Finally, the remoting-3.1 XML schema would have the group-name attributes renamed.
 
Unless anyone has any screaming objections to this, I'll plan on it for Beta3.

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