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Posted to dev@synapse.apache.org by Andreas Veithen <an...@skynet.be> on 2008/06/26 14:23:11 UTC
File suffix for Synapse extension archives
Hi all,
With the improvements I proposed in SYNAPSE-377 it will become
possible to deploy (including hot deployment) Synapse extensions, i.e.
mediators and startups, not only in the form of simple JAR files, but
also in the form of archive files with embedded JARs, meaning that the
extension can be bundled and deployed together with its dependencies.
This is similar to how AAR files for Axis2 services and MAR files for
Axis2 modules work. To distinguish this kind of archives from normal
JARs, it will be necessary to chose a new file extension. Initially I
proposed SXAR for Synapse eXtension ARchive, but after giving it some
thought, I believe that XAR sounds better. I would like to have the
opinion of the developer and user community on this. Any comments and
suggestions are welcome!
Regards,
Andreas
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Re: File suffix for Synapse extension archives
Posted by Ruwan Linton <ru...@gmail.com>.
I agree 3 character extension is always better than any other extensions :-)
But I found XAR to be a little common extension for example it is being used
by MS-Excel as Excel AutoRecover
File<http://www.microsoft.com/office/excel/>and there are some other
media types which refers with the XAR extension.
How about SXR which is not associated with any of the files to my knowledge.
Thanks,
Ruwan
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Andreas Veithen <an...@skynet.be>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> With the improvements I proposed in SYNAPSE-377 it will become possible to
> deploy (including hot deployment) Synapse extensions, i.e. mediators and
> startups, not only in the form of simple JAR files, but also in the form of
> archive files with embedded JARs, meaning that the extension can be bundled
> and deployed together with its dependencies. This is similar to how AAR
> files for Axis2 services and MAR files for Axis2 modules work. To
> distinguish this kind of archives from normal JARs, it will be necessary to
> chose a new file extension. Initially I proposed SXAR for Synapse eXtension
> ARchive, but after giving it some thought, I believe that XAR sounds better.
> I would like to have the opinion of the developer and user community on
> this. Any comments and suggestions are welcome!
>
> Regards,
>
> Andreas
>
>
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--
Ruwan Linton
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http://ruwansblog.blogspot.com/
Re: File suffix for Synapse extension archives
Posted by Andreas Veithen <an...@skynet.be>.
I think that the suffix should end with AR so that the file type is
easily recognizable as JAR like. Since 3 letters look better than 4
and SAR is already taken, this would leave us with XAR. The fact that
this suffix is already used by Excel Autorecovery files should not be
too annoying because Excel places these files in single directory
(somewhere under User Data or so) and users should normally not see
them elsewhere in their file system. Also note that after all, for
Resource Adapter Archives Sun defined the suffix RAR, which is much
more common.
Andreas
after all RAR
On 26 juin 08, at 19:11, Asankha C. Perera wrote:
> Andreas
>> Initially I proposed SXAR for Synapse eXtension ARchive, but after
>> giving it some thought, I believe that XAR sounds better. I would
>> like to have the opinion of the developer and user community on
>> this. Any comments and suggestions are welcome!
> I didn't like SXAR since it feels too long.. but .SAR would have
> been good - if it didn't conflict with the Jboss stuff.. so I
> guess .xar would be ok for us
>
> asankha
>
> --
> Asankha C. Perera
>
> WSO2 - http://wso2.org
> http://esbmagic.blogspot.com
>
Re: File suffix for Synapse extension archives
Posted by Andreas Veithen <an...@skynet.be>.
I think that the suffix should end with AR so that the file type is
easily recognizable as JAR like. Since 3 letters look better than 4
and SAR is already taken, this would leave us with XAR. The fact that
this suffix is already used by Excel Autorecovery files should not be
too annoying because Excel places these files in single directory
(somewhere under User Data or so) and users should normally not see
them elsewhere in their file system. Also note that after all, for
Resource Adapter Archives Sun defined the suffix RAR, which is much
more common.
Andreas
after all RAR
On 26 juin 08, at 19:11, Asankha C. Perera wrote:
> Andreas
>> Initially I proposed SXAR for Synapse eXtension ARchive, but after
>> giving it some thought, I believe that XAR sounds better. I would
>> like to have the opinion of the developer and user community on
>> this. Any comments and suggestions are welcome!
> I didn't like SXAR since it feels too long.. but .SAR would have
> been good - if it didn't conflict with the Jboss stuff.. so I
> guess .xar would be ok for us
>
> asankha
>
> --
> Asankha C. Perera
>
> WSO2 - http://wso2.org
> http://esbmagic.blogspot.com
>
Re: File suffix for Synapse extension archives
Posted by "Asankha C. Perera" <as...@wso2.com>.
Andreas
> Initially I proposed SXAR for Synapse eXtension ARchive, but after
> giving it some thought, I believe that XAR sounds better. I would like
> to have the opinion of the developer and user community on this. Any
> comments and suggestions are welcome!
I didn't like SXAR since it feels too long.. but .SAR would have been
good - if it didn't conflict with the Jboss stuff.. so I guess .xar
would be ok for us
asankha
--
Asankha C. Perera
WSO2 - http://wso2.org
http://esbmagic.blogspot.com
Re: File suffix for Synapse extension archives
Posted by Ruwan Linton <ru...@gmail.com>.
I agree 3 character extension is always better than any other extensions :-)
But I found XAR to be a little common extension for example it is being used
by MS-Excel as Excel AutoRecover
File<http://www.microsoft.com/office/excel/>and there are some other
media types which refers with the XAR extension.
How about SXR which is not associated with any of the files to my knowledge.
Thanks,
Ruwan
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Andreas Veithen <an...@skynet.be>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> With the improvements I proposed in SYNAPSE-377 it will become possible to
> deploy (including hot deployment) Synapse extensions, i.e. mediators and
> startups, not only in the form of simple JAR files, but also in the form of
> archive files with embedded JARs, meaning that the extension can be bundled
> and deployed together with its dependencies. This is similar to how AAR
> files for Axis2 services and MAR files for Axis2 modules work. To
> distinguish this kind of archives from normal JARs, it will be necessary to
> chose a new file extension. Initially I proposed SXAR for Synapse eXtension
> ARchive, but after giving it some thought, I believe that XAR sounds better.
> I would like to have the opinion of the developer and user community on
> this. Any comments and suggestions are welcome!
>
> Regards,
>
> Andreas
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@synapse.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@synapse.apache.org
>
>
--
Ruwan Linton
http://wso2.org - "Oxygenating the Web Services Platform"
http://ruwansblog.blogspot.com/
Re: File suffix for Synapse extension archives
Posted by "Asankha C. Perera" <as...@wso2.com>.
Andreas
> Initially I proposed SXAR for Synapse eXtension ARchive, but after
> giving it some thought, I believe that XAR sounds better. I would like
> to have the opinion of the developer and user community on this. Any
> comments and suggestions are welcome!
I didn't like SXAR since it feels too long.. but .SAR would have been
good - if it didn't conflict with the Jboss stuff.. so I guess .xar
would be ok for us
asankha
--
Asankha C. Perera
WSO2 - http://wso2.org
http://esbmagic.blogspot.com