Hi Jeff,
Most of us were at ApacheCon until yesterday night and more or less
off the radar.
Anyway, having a mutable JNDI context for local clients isn't a bad
idea. It'd be something we could add to LocalInitialContextFactory
but probably not something we'd add to the
RemoteInitialContextFactory. With the LocalInitialContextFactory,
it's your memory you are chewing on, so have at it. With the
RemoteInitialContextFactory, you would be chewing on the server's
memory and bandwidth.
I mention the RemoteInitialContextFactory as essentially the Local
and the Remote InitialContextFactories are functionally equivalent
from the client's perspective more or less and one can be swapped out
for another. Something to consider.
An idea could be to make a new InitialContextFactory that wraps a
Local or Remote InitialContextFactory and provides binding ability
that is not distributed and only present on the client using the
InitialContext. It would just delegate to the Local or Remote
InitialContextFactory if the binding isn't found in it's list of
entries. The thing to consider there is that you could potentially
"overwrite" a binding in the Local or Remote InitialContextFactory.
Alright, so that's an initial brain dump on the feature. No real
conclusion. How do you imagine the feature you need working? Some
sort of use case on how it helps your testing would be great to make
sure we are actually solving the problem. Also, any interest in
helping to work on it?
Thanks,
David
On Dec 15, 2005, at 3:02 PM, Jeff Ramsdale wrote:
Hmmm...
Not having received an answer to this question, let me ask another. Is
it possible to use a different JNDI implementation than the one used
in OpenEJB? That is, there's no special magic in its JNDI
implementation that OpenEJB depends upon, is there? Do other
implementations allow for programatic bindings? I wouldn't have
thought this to be an unusual thing to try to do in a unit-testing
world? Set me straight, please, if I'm going about this wrong!
Thanks,
Jeff
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From: Jeff Ramsdale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 12/13/2005 5:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [openejb-user] Modifiable context?
When running in embedded mode for purposes of unit testing I'd like to
be able to programatically add bindings to my context. Is this
possible? I'm running into OperationNotSupportedExceptions because I'm
receiving a ReadOnlyContext using LocalInitialContextFactory.
Thanks,
Jeff
