[infinispan-dev] Re: property tags in configuration files

[Emmanuel Bernard]

OK here is my take.

Populating bean is fairly PITA for a user and a fluent API approach  
makes configuration more readable.

http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/hibernate/search/trunk/src/test/java/org/hibernate/search/test/configuration/ProgrammaticMappingTest.java
(check NotUseddefineMapping)
and the root class
http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/hibernate/search/trunk/src/main/java/org/hibernate/search/cfg/SearchMapping.java

if you want to stay on the bean side, I am wondering why you don't use  
JAXB or something like that to bind the XML model to the object model.


On  Jun 22, 2009, at 09:47, Vladimir Blagojevic wrote:

> We and others already use configuration beans directly (subclasses  
> of AbstractConfigurationBean) to configure infinispan instances.  
> However, we "manually" read data from xml and populate those beans  
> with data. We want to make this reading more automatic via metadata  
> available in annotations.
>
> On 6/22/09 9:32 AM, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
>> You mean people could actually populate beans themselves to  
>> programmatically create the InfiniSpan config?
>>
>> On  Jun 22, 2009, at 09:25, Vladimir Blagojevic wrote:
>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> We want to use these annotations to create infinispan  
>>> configuration option documentation directly from the source code  
>>> as well as to read XML config files and populate corresponding  
>>> configuration beans with xml data.
>>>
>>> If we go with expressive annotations we would end up with many  
>>> many annotations....
>