Re: [jsr-314-open] Slashes in resource library names?

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Jason Lee <jason(a)steeplesoft.com&gt; wrote: > On 2/1/10 9:13 AM, Kito Mann wrote: > > There was a discussion about nested resource library names last year. I > would say to search the archives, but I don't know if that's possible. > Anyway, here was the outcome: > > Ed: >> > > >> Yes, you are correct that the resource naming scheme prevents nested >> resource libraries. Nested resource libraries were not on the list of >> requirements when we designed this feature back in November of 2007. We >> will not accept this requirement change at this point. > > > Dan: > > So the spec needs to at least be clear that it's not permitted and suggest > the alternative. Several people reading it didn't understand what to do in > this case. > > IMHO, it's a shame that we can't use the nested structure. Seems like a > pretty obvious convention instead of configuration thing. I don't know how > that got missed in the design process. > > It would be interesting to find out why that was left out. Was it simply > an oversight, or are there technical reasons for disallowing that? On the > surface, it sounds like it would be easy to implement and support, but I've > not thought too deeply on the topic. Maybe that's something we should fix, > if we can, for 2.1. > We never got to the bottom of why this was left out, but I think there was a general agreement that it should be fixed. Let's discuss when and get an issue report filed. Here is the (not-so-pretty) link to the original discussion: http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0904&L=JSR-314-OPEN&... (that reminds me I have some leaning on the JCP PMO to get to). -Dan -- Dan Allen Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action Registered Linux User #231597 http://mojavelinux.com http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction http://www.google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen