[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss ESB] - Re: Configuration - normalization

[tfennelly]

"mark.little at jboss.com" wrote : Configuration duplication leads to errors. Can we take an approach that reduces that?

I think that's what we're trying to do :-)  We're just trying to find a balance here.  

My point would be 2-fold in that you will always have duplication of one sort or another... 

if not normalised enough - excessive duplication of the actual config params

if normalised to the nth degree - excessive duplication of reference id's etc, without a system to manage this referential integrity (unlike a DB eg).

... adding to that the fact that normalisation to the nth degree will definitely lead to fragmentation of the config on a grand scale => difficult to comprehend (perhaps not for all people ;-) ).

So sure, we want to reduce errors caused by duplication, but surely we don't want to introduce another family of errors :-)

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