You might look at the dynamic attributes used in
ManagedConnectionFactoryWrapper, AdminObjectWrapper, and
ResourceAdapterWrapper. They require some xml up front from ra.xml to
determine the exposed properties, but don't require extra
code/implementation class. I am still not happy with the idea of
exposing stuff purely by reflection without a definite indication of
some sort that it is really intended to be exposed.
david jencks
On Jul 27, 2005, at 8:53 PM, Jeff Genender wrote:
Aaron Mulder wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Jeff Genender wrote:
For subclassing to make an SSL Gbean, I am against this...this nails
up a particular connector GBean, where what I have allows the
connector to be used for just that...a connector...any protocol,
etc, makes no difference here. The Connector architecture I have
implemented allows for a direct pass through to Tomcat's Connector
object, and thus makes it as flexible as possible.
Here's the problem: if ConnectorGBean offers SSL settings, you're
offered the opportunity to provide/configure a bunch of stuff that is
totally irrelevant to a non-SSL connector (you know, user views an
HTTP
connector, it asks them for a keystore -- what's up with that?). I
don't
believe we should offer configuration and management setting that
don't
apply.
So, I'd prefer to do this:
ConnectorGBean
- all connector code
- non-SSL config options
SSLConnectorGBean extends ConnectorGBean
- no additional connector code (config/mgmt only)
- always sets secure=true
- includes SSL config options (inherits non-SSL config options)
- ultimately can refer to an external keystore GBean
What about AJP? I guess its fine to subclass as long as the
ConnectorGBean is available, so other types of connectors could be
created.
That wat if you go to manage a HTTP connector, it has only settings
pertinent to an HTTP connector, and if you go to manage an HTTPS
connector is has all the settings pertinent to an HTTPS connector.
Again, I'm not at all suggesting that we split up the code that
deals with the underlying Tomcat objects.
Good...this was really my main concern.
If this is something you want to occur, then I would appreciate that
this is opened up for discussion before anyone goes subclassing the
ConnectorGBean.
Sorry -- I thought I wrote to the list about this aready, but it was
stuck in my postponed messages. Here was my original thought on the
topic.
Now things make sense ;-) But I am addressing one area ... comments
inline below.
Aaron
-------------------
So as part of this management API, I'd like to move a bunch of
properties out of the "initParams" and into separate properties for
the
Tomcat connectors. Then those properties can be reflected in the
management interface.
One issue is that all connectors seem to support the same
settings
-- in particular, the SSL settings, which I guess are just ignored
unless
the secure flag is set. But it doesn't make sense to me to offer SSL
management properties for HTTP connectors.
That being the case, I'd like to break out an
SSLConnectorGBean
from the ConnectorGBean. The SSL version would just extend the basic
one, add more manageable properties, and default the secure flag to
true.
For now, you could still configure a SSL connector using the
standard ConectorGBean just to frustrate me, but eventually I'd like
to
move all the connector properties into GBean properties and remove the
initParams all together.
That will be a problem in the future. The whole idea about the
initParams is it allows you to plug in other "beans" and the GBean
will dynamically set the properties through introspection without
having to write a GBean that nails up an attribute to a class
property. I think its ok to do this with SSL, etc, but an accross the
board cut of the initparams would force us to write a new GBean if I
have a new connector object (or new Valve or Realm or Host).
I originally was doing a one for one Gbean attribute to class
parameter when I started Tomcat. But this became unfeasible when I
noticed the whole Tomcat architecture revolved around pluggable
components that introspect the component properties. No one single
Valve or Realm fit ... they seemed to have different properties based
upon the class used. Introspection was the cure. Now we can use any
kind of connector/Valve/Realm/Host/Engine by declaring the class name
and setting initParams...Gbean will introspect...and it works.
What I would suggest perhaps is to look at this from a bigger picture
and review the way Gbeans work with attributes, and would there be a
way to allow for dynamic parameters w/o the need to explicitly code
the attributes. Some form of introspection would be ideal (as I am
currently using in the Tomcat Gbeans). This way we can make pluggable
pojo classes that allow for dynamically configurable properties.
Perhaps the Spring kernel will allow this?
Jeff
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
I was going to do that tonight or tomorrow and give Tomcat the
same lovin.
Matt
----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Mulder"
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To: <dev@geronimo.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 8:44 PM
Subject: Jetty Max Threads Patch
Matt,
If you're up to it, can you submit an additional patch for the
Jetty connectors to fully implement
modules/j2ee/src/java/org/apache/geronimo/j2ee/management/
geronimo/WebConnec
tor.java
I've verified that the underlying product supports all the methods
in there (I put the URLs in the JavaDoc). There's also a
SecureConnector.java interface in the same dir for the SSL
connector.
Thanks,
Aaron
