On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibu...@gmail.com>wrote:
> isn't it close to our dump descriptor feature? > > let imagine we can add the dumped descriptor during the build, if the > descriptor is "metadata complete" it is the same no? > AFAIU from what David said yes, but I was talking about two different aspects here, the descriptive part and the executable one. From one end the users will write a simple XML which we can use as is or out of it we generate an optimized code to make things faster, but I am not sure if that fits or not, any feedback would be appreciated! > > - Romain > > > 2012/2/21 Mohammad Nour El-Din <nour.moham...@gmail.com> > > > I have one concern, still by having an XML generated and we still like > > reading only information about such classes and the overhead of reading > XML > > in memory in case we have a large one(s). > > > > Why not generate a code out of that which is compiled with the jar or > even > > added to the an existing jar which will be much faster and this code can > be > > based on templates which developers can extend, change or customize. > > > > Thoughts ? > > > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Mohammad Nour El-Din < > > nour.moham...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Thanks > > - Mohammad Nour > > ---- > > "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep > moving" > > - Albert Einstein > > > -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour ---- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein
