Hi!
Aaron Mulder wrote:
> Hmmm... I'm not sure I follow you here, Rickard. Besides this,
> you've said elsewhere that EJX just "knows" what plugins to load, so you
> don't have to load things manually.
Yes. If you look in the container configuration XML code you will see
that there are references to Java classes. These are loaded and then
delegated to.
> However, when I look at the code, the JBossFileManager loads
> ejb-jar.xml and jboss.xml - and that's hardcoded.
Exactly. These two are always loaded. Notice that part of jboss.xml is
dynamic content and structure (the container configuration as mentioned
above). The JAWS settings could be added to the beans in a similar way
(i.e. contained in jboss.xml).
> Then the
> JawsFileManager loads ejb-jar.xml and jaws.xml - also hardcoded. The
> JawsFileManager gets loaded by the JAWSPersistenceManager, which gets
> loaded since its class is named explicitly in jboss.xml.
Correct.
> This does not seem automatic or "magical" to me - and EJX is not
> loading things "dynamically".
I was talking about the container configuration kind of doing things.
This is how it could work for the JAWS settings / bean as well.
> The container code is dynamically loading
> JAWS based on an entry in another file, but all four files loaded are
> hardcoded in the FileManager classes. (I won't even ask why ejb-jar.xml
> is loaded twice!)
Exactly, and this is what has to change to either:
* Include the dynamic settings in jboss.xml
* Add ability to add aspects of beans dynamically by loading several XML
documents into the structure.
> In the EJX GUI, you specifically tell it which plugin to use when
> you open a file - you have to say "open as type [EJB-JAR | JBoss | JAWS]".
> So here again, I'm not seeing EJX doing anything dynamic. Can you clarify
> what you mean when you say EJX just "knows" what plugins to load and
> "loads the right plugins dynamically"?
Again, I was talking about the container configuration, and the same
idea could be applied to the bean configuration.
Is it clear now? No magic, but certain decisions on how the structure
looks like and where to get data from needs to happen at runtime.
/Rickard
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