Stefan, With HiveMind 1.1 this will be much easier. See http://jakarta.apache.org/hivemind/current/override.html.
Regards, --knut On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 06:50:51 -0800, Liebig, Stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have quite often the case that we would like to have a default > implementation > for a service, which should be overridable by the users of our framework. The > possibility to achieve that by using the application/factory defaults is not > very > obvious and hides this semantic because it can also be used for many other > things. > > Could we not add two attributes to the existing service point/implementation > elements > to support this? Such as: > > <service-point id=".." .. overridable="true"/> > <implementation service-id=".." type="default"/> > <implementation service-id=".." type="override"/> > > With: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : not requiered, ( true | false > ), default value = false > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: not requiered, ( default | override ), default value = > default > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> defines whether a service is > overridable or not. Default > behaviour is like it is today, which is not overridable. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] defines whether the implementation is a default > implementation > or the overriden implementation. Default is �default�, so that the behaviour > is as > today. > > An �inlined� implementation is a final (not overridable) implementation if > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is false. If [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is true than the > �inlined� implementation is a default (overridable) implementation. > > Possible conflicts (hivemind errors/warnings): > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> == false && [EMAIL PROTECTED] > == override > more ? > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
