As a big user of Configuration, I've thought that it would be quite
useful in many places. The flexibility it adds is really useful.
Configuration isn't specifically locale aware, however, we have
discussed adding a ConfigurationLocaleAware decorator that would handle
that. The Scarab project has it's own logic that takes a Configuration
and makes it locale aware for i18n purposes for example.
Eric
On Apr 7, 2005, at 12:10 PM, James Mitchell wrote:
Like many of the Jakarta Commons projects, Commons Resources was
based, in part, from the initial work done in Struts and later copied
over to commons with the intent to one day use that library. This is
what was done for Beanutils, Digester, Validator, and more I'm sure.
(Craig, correct me if I am wrong here)
MessageResources (the one in Struts) was created because
ResourceBundle (java api) did not provide the required functionality
(at the time it was needed).
I have only had a cursory look at Configuration. From what I know of
it, it is a reusable library for getting configuration data into your
application (typically during startup). Commons Resources is a
reusable library for retrieving properties pairs (locale aware) for
your application. I do not know if Configuration is locale aware, but
I suppose Commons Resources could be extended (or changed) to use
Configuration.
The database extensions I did for Resources are specific to Resources,
but that can be changed if enough people think we should do that.
I can see how Resources, I18N, and Configuration could play nice
together in providing i18n'd messages and configuration data.
Would there be any interest in such an animal?
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James,
How much different is Common Resources from Common Configuration? In
essence, a property file is really just a list of configuration pairs.
Thanks,
Paul
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Yes there is the OJBMessageResource class and I believe the same
author
wrote a HibernateMessageResource class. The class I wrote is mostly a
"JNDIJDBCMessageResource" which has a timeout cache attached to it.
The
config is comprised of three elements (comma separated)
1) The JNDI Name of the datasource to use that maps to a table.
2) The sql to use basically this sql relies on the fact that
variable 1 is
the locale, and variable 2 is the key .
3) The time that the cached value previously retrieved from the DB is
valid. If this is 0 timeout is never.
The ones mentioned in Bill's book are very good implementations but
I feel
that it is sometimes nicer to have an implementation that does not
add
extra class libraries (i.e. OJB or Hibernate). If you are already
using
one of those in your app I would say then use those Message Resource
extensions, but if you want something relatively simple that just
uses
standard J2EE and the struts libs then use mine. (I really should
get it
up on a site somewhere :)
Hi, I wrote OJBMessageResources a while back and it has not been
updated
since it was last published.
Struts will soon be changing (1.3.something) the internal mechanism
from
MessageResources/PropertyMessageResources (and factory) to
commons-resources. That's why I wrote 3 implementations for
commons-resources:
HibernateResources
IBatisResources
JDBCResources (not in CVS yet)
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/struts/commons-resources-
optional/
These are not released (because commons-resources has not been
released, but
it is out of the sandbox, which is a good thing), but I will publish
and
announce the extensions when it get's the 1.0 stamp of approval.
Al
Thanks.
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EdgeTech, Inc.
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