[jboss-dev] jboss-beans.xml versus spring-beans.xml

[Adrian Brock]

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 13:58 +0200, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
> I actually always wondered why we don't do a content check instead
> of relying purely on filenames/suffixes ?
> 
> e.g. scan for -beans.xml but reject them if they don't match the first element or proper dtd or something ?
> 
> Performance reasons ?

Performance and its not very user friendly.

If the user mistypes the schema name then
we'd just ignore the file and the user
would have no idea what the problem is.

> 
> -max
> 
> > Since a number of users are complaining about us
> > trying to process WEB-INF/spring-beans.xml
> > as an MC -beans.xml file, even though
> > spring-beans.xml should be in WEB-INF/classes
> > I'm going to go through and change all our
> > -beans.xml files to end with -jboss-beans.xml
> >
> > https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-5803
> >
> > e.g. ejb3-deployer-beans.xml becomes
> > ejb3-deployer-jboss-beans.xml
> >
> > To try to keep the history of these files
> > I'll be moving them in the repository
> > along with seperate commits to the build files.
> >
> > To try to keep the individual changes
> > as atomic as possible I'll be doing it project
> > by project in jboss-head.
> >
> > Problems you might see:
> >
> > 1) I'll be doing the testsuite last, so
> > some of the overridden configs may not
> > work because it will be copying over the
> > wrong file until I've changed them.
> >
> > 2) If you are doing incremental builds
> > you might end up with both the old and
> > new file in your jboss image which
> > will surface as an attempt to deploy a bean twice.
> 
> 
> 
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Adrian Brock
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