[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of EJB 3.0] - Re: jboss.xml dtd with jboss service element?

[kapilanand]

Well annotations can define the meta data ok, but i dont intend to use them for deployment related details.
Deployment descriptor is the right place for it.
For example I used jboss.xml for the local-jndi-name only and used annotations for Management interface, Local interface and declaring the class as service, but this hard-codes the servicename. I was trying to figure out a way to override the service name from jboss.xml, and that's why looking for the DTD.

Of course i can replace the annotation values in the source at the time of build , but that requires my code to be checked-out (writable), plus I dont know how the java5 enabled IDE behave on scanning the variable names instead of the valid values.
So even a hard coded deployment descriptor is of same category. If xdoclet is out of picture, i would prefer to store templates for deployment-descritors and   populate them to generate packages for release.

In case you have a better idea, do let me know.

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