I like XML because we can have enforcement via schema.
Regards, Alan On Feb 21, 2012, at 6:39 AM, Romain Manni-Bucau wrote: > I think the same. > > I think we don't really have any choice regarding the format since we don't > want to bring another lib to do anything more than we need in tomee > webprofile. > > It is either properties, plain txt or xml file. > > - Romain > > > 2012/2/21 Alan D. Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> > >> I think that it would be nicer to have a simple file that all manner of >> tooling can read, e.g. python. >> >> With that said, the XML file format seems simple enough and I doubt that >> any large jar would pose a problem memory or CPU wise. JMHO. >> >> >> Regards, >> Alan >> >> >> On Feb 20, 2012, at 4:49 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: >> >>> 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 >> >>
