Would using a seperate namespace in the XML snipplet help with defining a schema??
Regards, Hiram >From: Jason Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [JBoss-dev] XML snippet, JAXB|Castor & Schemas (oh my) >Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 21:22:43 -0800 > >I looked into Castor a little bit more today... specificially trying to >see if there was and documented way to treat a block of xml as a type. >It does not appear to be the case... which does not really surprise me. >I started looking for other such JAXB|Castor-like things, but I >stopped, thinking that most tools will do the same. > >I suppose we could implement something like Ant, to use reflection to >create a model from XML... but perhaps there is an easier way? I think >there is, not with out issues, but a better way to handle this. > >Embedding an XML snippet is really easy, but makes it rather impossible >to define a schema for the service.xml files (perhaps there is some >schema directive for this, I don't know... so I am going on what I do >know). I sugest that a better aproache would be to configure the >snippet from a URL. > >I personally would like to find a way to keep the snippet, but I think >that we may be better off using someone else's xml->object generator and >providing a schema to validate the xml against. > >The obvious draw back to this is, well, more files. Though not a huge >number of files. For .sar usage, the resource:// protocol can be used >to pull out a config from the containing file. Target components would >then take that url and unmarshal there configuraion model from it (and >then invoke the proper configure method with that model, so xml is not >required to configure) or they can simply parse it and get an Element. > >It seems like this is the simplest way to get to non-xml specific >configuration by using thirdparty tools. > >The downside is more files... which sucks, but I think that we can >probably make that a mute point with the adition of an easy to use >configuration manager service. Which would basically hide all of the >details of files behind a simple web interface, thus allowing ease of >configuration, by simulating xml snippets in a webpage, but underneith >managing some files. That I will leave for future descussion... as the >usage of NetBoot becomes more common place for large distributions of >JBoss nodes something like this will really blow peoples minds... > >--jason > > >_______________________________________________ >Jboss-development mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
