Change the domain model paths system to not use services -------------------------------------------------------- Key: AS7-2945 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-2945 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Enhancement Components: Domain Management Reporter: David Lloyd Assignee: Kabir Khan Fix For: 7.2.0.Alpha1 Using services for path references has two distinct disadvantages: * It makes it difficult or impossible to detect changes (the only way to change a path is to restart the service) * If a path consumer is not a service, it is difficult to use path values What we should have instead is have a registration mechanism so that when a path is used, the reference is tracked in the model. This lets us detect backreferences in the event where a path is to be deleted. This would also enable us to send a notification when a path is changed, so that changing a path also causes an update or "refresh" on all referencing domain attributes. This way, for example, if I change the base path for the log directory, all the log handlers can automatically be updated as well as part of the same operation, using their existing update logic.