Re: [QUESTION OF TASTE] Should an Aegis(Xml)ServiceConfiguration demand the presence of an AegisDatabinding?

[Daniel Kulp <dk...@apache.org>]

On Jul 31, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Benson Margulies wrote:

> Proposal:
>
> The service configuration will obtain the data binding from the
> service factory. If it is Aegis, it will extract the desired
> customizations. If it is not Aegis, it will do nothing. It will NOT
> independently pull in and parse the XML.
>

That is fine.   The required methods are already on the  
ServiceConfiguration objects (except the nillable stuff which we'll  
need to add to support this anyway).   Thus, we already have ways to  
configure this stuff.

Dan


> The alternative is, of course, to allow Aegis configuration to be
> mixed with anything else by just going ahead and reading the file (if
> any) at that point.
>
> The former is less work and arguably less confusing, but I'll do the
> later if others think it superior.

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