Did you get and read the documentation about the extensions in GateIn?
It seems that the doc has been sent to Thomas, I don't know if he shares it
with you
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Boleslaw Dawidowicz <
boleslaw.dawidowicz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have few questions about sample-portal and how the services are
started.
What concerns me the most is that currently services seems to be started
separately for each container. This means that we end up with two
HibernateServices and OrganizationService instances. Obviously it may be
desired to have separate identity realm per container but I believe that
there may be some situations in which single OrganizationService would also
be expected. So for the more specific questions:
1) Is it possible to have both containers use same service instances? Some
configuration way to mark services as shared and bootstrapped only once.
2) I'm a bit confused by the way the service configuration is separated.
AFAIK one benefit of the separate container config is to push configuration
out of gatein.ear. That way things can be configured in
sample-portal.ear/sample-portal.war. However most of services configuration
currently remain in gatein.ear/portal.war/WEB-INF/conf and rely on the
${container.name.suffix} replaced by the kernel. One example is
HibernateService which creates separate DB instances this way. Now if I want
to plug LDAP the natural way is to provide several xml files with names
following ${container.name.suffix} pattern. But those are defined in config
remaining in gatein.ear - then portal admin need to mess with config in both
ears. Wouldn't it make sense to duplicate more service configuration in
sample-portal.ear?
My use case is PicketLink IDM integration with LDAP enabled. As it is
natural to provide separate LDAP DNs for different portal containers I can
either put additional config file in sample-portal.war or have two different
ones in gatein.ear/portal.war. So it is either configuring sample-portal.war
inside gatein.ear/portal.war or having part of identity config in portal.war
and part in sample-portal.war... I think it would make sense to duplicate at
least HibernateService and OrganizationService config in both war files.
3) Current behavior is to replace the ${container.name.suffix} by:
- empty string in tomcat deployment
- "_portal" and "_sample-portal" in jboss deployment
It works fine when the suffix is used to create the HSQLDB file name on the
fly but when used to refer to different configuration files it means that
there need to be 3 xml files.. where 2 are duplicated ones to serve main
portal container in tomcat and jboss. Could we have ${container.name.suffix}
be replaced by "portal" in both jboss and tomcat? Also is there any other
property that could be used as a prefix? Like to have the choice between
"portal_", "portal" and "_portal" for flexibility in nice
config files
naming.
Bolek.
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