A couple of thoughts.
1) If we ship with one enabled out of the box I will leave to Jason to decide
- why not save the boot time if we don't need it ?
2) We should try and limit (eliminate) subsystem/service dependency on an
active database.
3) Having the name as 'DefaultDS' would leave the impression that the AS is
using the database.
I think a better route is to have the demos/samples/... just use the
deployment api - through a script to the CLI f.ex. - to create the necessary
resources and deploy their application.
or at least introduce something like what ds.xml files were used for ;)
-max
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