[...this un-lurking is getting habit-forming...]
"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
> What would you think about using a JNDI DirContext as a representation of the
> resources available to a web application? The idea would be to use directory
> entry attributes for the commonly used information like "last modified date" and
> "number of bytes in this resource", rather than Java properties. We'd want to
> standardize on attribute names to be used (perhaps starting from the File
> directory context already available with JNDI) so that the rest of the servlet
> container can access them. Obviously, this would be a per-webapp structure, just
> like the naming context for <env-entry> and <resource-entry> things is. In fact
> ... maybe it could even be a subcontext of that very same context ...
Craig:
I think that the *option* for Catalina to interact with a larger
namespace is a Good Idea, but my experiments with JNDI implementations
show these to be rather heavyweight systems.
OK, so a relational database is heavyweight, too... hmm.
I am working on RDF indexes of web content, and am planning a WebDAV
properties store thingy that might use Guha's RDFdb.
OK, I suppose a JNDI thing is the same design pattern. FWIW, I say go
for it...
--boyd
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