[jboss-as7-dev] API Feedback Releases: ShrinkWrap Descriptors 1.2.0-alpha Series

[Jaikiran Pai]

Is this something that we can start using in AS7 tests along with the 
current usage of Shrinkwrap + Arquillian?

-Jaikiran
On Tuesday 13 September 2011 08:50 PM, Andrew Lee Rubinger wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> Last week we made available ShrinkWrap Descriptors 1.2.0-alpha-1.
>
> The scope of this project is very simple: Provide a object model DSL for
> metadata.  For instance:
>
> final WebAppDescriptor desc = Descriptors.create(WebAppDescriptor.class)
>     .createSessionConfig().sessionTimeout(timeout)
>     .getOrCreateCookieConfig().name(name).domain(domain)
>     .path(path).maxAge(maxAge).up()
>     .trackingMode(TrackingModeType._COOKIE.name()).up();
> final String exported = desc.exportAsString();
>
> As contrasted with jboss-metadata, this intentionally does not take into
> account concerns like business logic (ie. validation, setting default
> values) or merging.  Also the implementation uses our own manual
> hierarchal state, so it's much faster than something like JAXB.
>
> I'd like to invite everyone to check it out.  Everything in the api-spec
> and api-jboss modules is subject to change, and we'll want to ensure the
> API is something we're comfortable we're supporting before this reaches
> a Beta-level release.
>
> http://jboss.hudson.alrubinger.com/job/Descriptors/javadoc/
> https://github.com/shrinkwrap/descriptors
>
> A large portion of this development has come from the community, which
> is something we're very proud to say.
>
> S,
> ALR