On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Alan D. Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com>wrote:
> Neat idea. > > I would include the configuration information in the scan.xml so that > tooling would know the criteria used in the scan and decide whether or not > to scan for other annotations or inplementations. > > I would also put the scan.xml file in some package specific place like > META-INF/org/apache/xbean/scan.xml. > +1 on the idea and the additions on Alan > > > Regards, > Alan > > > On Feb 20, 2012, at 2:40 PM, David Blevins wrote: > > > We've chatted occasionally on creating a scanning.xml file where people > could setup includes and excludes and, overall, optimize classpath scanning. > > > > Romain is already busy hacking of course :) Here's the idea for a > plugin to effectively do the most expensive part of scanning in advance: > > > > <plugin> > > <groupId>org.apache.xbean</groupId> > > <artifactId>maven-xbean-finder-plugin</artifactId> > > <configuration> > > <annotations> > > <annotation>javax.ejb.Stateless</annotation> > > <annotation>javax.ejb.Stateful</annotation> > > <annotation>javax.ejb.Singleton</annotation> > > <annotation>javax.annotation.ManagedBean</annotation> > > </annotations> > > <subclasses> > > <subclass>javax.ws.rs.core.Application</subclass> > > </subclasses> > > <implementations> > > > <implementation>org.apache.openejb.server.ServerService</implementation> > > </implementations> > > </configuration> > > </plugin> > > > > With a configuration like the above, the plugin would scan the jar for > subclasses of javax.ws.rs.core.Application, classes annotated with > @Stateless, @Singleton, @Stateful and classes that implement ServiceService. > > > > The result would be a META-INF/scan.xml class that looks like so: > > > > <scan> > > <classes> > > <class>org.superbiz.Foo</class> > > <class>org.superbiz.Bar</class> > > <class>org.superbiz.Baz</class> > > </classes> > > </scan> > > > > And on the TODO list would be future support for <packages> > > > > <scan> > > <packages> > > <package>org.superbiz.foo</package> > > <package>org.superbiz.bar</package> > > </packages> > > </scan> > > > > With the above you could easily create scan.xml file by hand that would > at least be far faster than scanning an entire jar. > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > -David > > > > -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour ---- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein
