[infinispan-dev] CacheLoader and CacheStore

[Tristan Tarrant]

On 08/15/2013 03:48 PM, Galder Zamarreño wrote:
> On Aug 14, 2013, at 11:14 PM, Ray Tsang <saturnism at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I actually did not enjoy writing parsers and config builders etc…
> ^ Why not? Too verbose? Too many classes?
>
> I'd rather improve this than carry on supporting property-based configuration (any other type safety advocates?)
>
I agree with posts further down the thread about some over-verbose 
complexity in the bean/builder/parser approach, but I'd rather have 
developers go the extra mile for type safety and predictable schema. 
We've been down the property based approach and it is uglier.
The JDBC store is a bad example as it is very complex in its 
configuration: most of the other stores have a flat configuration and 
writing a parser is not that complex really.
And while I also understand Sanne's view on auto-generated XSD, I would 
only want such a tool to keep in sync the documentation between the 
javadocs and the XSDs, rather than base the schema structure on the 
configuration beans. Hand-written might be time-consuming initially but 
I also find it helps create better, more understandable schemas.

Tristan