Re: [jboss-as7-dev] DataSource Enable/disable

Both variants are fine. I can also understand the attempt to distinguish operation vs attribute use cases. IMO this reveals one of the weak sports in the detyped API: runtime vs. configuration properties of the system. to further distinguish these two I would suggest the following, which may apply to other subsystems as well: - if changing the configuration impacts the runtime state (i.e. enabled->disabled) then make it an operation - if it's merely configuration then make it an attribute If separated like this, attributes names should not imply state changes. For instance, a) setting the attribute "enabled" to false, make me think b ) I "disable" the resource. Whereas a) is an attribute change but b) is an operation. We can solve the problem for the datasource by keeping the enable/disable operations like they are and simply rename the attribute to something like "auto-start". We have a similar case with server-instances. Ike On Apr 21, 2011, at 4:37 AM, Brian Stansberry wrote: