Could I add things rather than override?
No. You can do that in the console, but this file just lets you
override certain attributes for GBeans that are already in the
server.
You'll notice in the sample there aren't full GBean definitions,
only what
amounts to attribute=value entries.
Would anything stop you from doing that though?
I would. The idea here is to allow a few attributes to be
customized locally even on a server with immutable configurations.
editing your configuration contents should use a different system.
Most attributes and all references will not be editable in this
config db.
I believe that this strategy is a bad idea. What is going to happen
is every time we release the software, someone is going to want to
tweak a setting that we either forgot to make manageable, or we
wrongly believed shouldn't be managed. Why not make all attributes*
manageable?
-dain
* Of course a user could not set a binary attribute but you get the
idea.
- Re: User Configuration of ports, etc. Dain Sundstrom
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