On 10/19/11 6:35 AM, Göktürk Gezer wrote:
Hi Emmanuel,
I'm doing some experiments on DS. I saw some problems on our way. Before
diving deeper i must consult you about somethings.
I'm changing the way we deal with schema
elements(LdapComparator,Normalizer,SyntaxChecker) so that they will be
pluggable. Schema manager tries to classload them that's where i'm going to
change. I'll make SchemaManager get them through OSGI, but while i change
the core parts, there are lots of place on the code that use them as
tool(Tests espacially). And once the class is manipulated with IPojo, it is
not so easy to instantiate it through normal ways. Before solving that topic
i must know what do you think about below issues:
1- Tests are using them heavily. So changing the way we load them will broke
these unit tests. So we must change them to be OSGI compatible. I'm talking
aside from OSGI integration tests. These changes will make these unit tests
unable to run without OSGI.(Pax-Exam will be used most probably)
I'm afraid this will be a necessary move...
2- Because more than one instances of the ApacheDS may be launched inside
same JVM. We must either provide same copies of these schema elements to all
instances or we must create separate ones for each one. They are separated
between instances at that moment because of the class load approach, but as
far as i see no context information is kept in those elements. So we can
share them between ApacheDS instances. What do you think?
Those 3 classes are totally context-free. We can share them safely.
3- How Studio is interacting with that elements. This is the most important
question actually. Because these elements are in shared, every main change
will affect Studio too. For what purposes these elements are being used by
Studio?
Studio uses shared heavily. As the client API is schema aware, and as
it's used by Studio, we are using those elements in many places in Studio.
I don't know how wide will be the changes, but as soon as we have a
guideline to do them, we can apply it easily. It's just a matter of time !
Thanks !
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Regards,
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
