[JNDI] [Config] Configuration: flat file or registry?

[Alex Blewitt <Al...@ioshq.com>]

I kicked off a thread suggesting configuration information may be 
stored in a registry-based system instead of a flat-file/xml-based 
format, which provoked some interesting comments and discussions.

I've created a few pages to capture this in:

http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ConfigurationAsFlatFile
http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ConfigurationAsRegistry
http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ApacheJ2EE/Configuration

and put comments that have been made by others in there. Ideally, I'd 
like people to review the first couple and add any other 
advantages/disadvantages/wishlist items inside there.

Thanks,

Alex.

Re: [JNDI] [Config] Configuration: flat file or registry?

[Sean Hamblett <sh...@charter.net>]

Alex,

     I don't know if this will help, but I have been 
working with iPlanet/Sun ONE, and if I remember correctly 
(this comes from the marketing types) there is a 
configuration feature that allows the configuration to be 
in both places.  The flat file is offered as a defelopment 
solution, and allows configurations to be shared easily 
between servers.  I believe there is some continuity 
between both, where the registry can be loaded via file, 
and can be dumped to file.  I don't know if this strategy 
will help, or just create noise.  Sorry if the latter.


Sean


  Alex Blewitt <Al...@ioshq.com> wrote:
>I kicked off a thread suggesting configuration 
>information may be stored in a registry-based system 
>instead of a flat-file/xml-based format, which provoked 
>some interesting comments and discussions.
>
>I've created a few pages to capture this in:
>
>http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ConfigurationAsFlatFile
>http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ConfigurationAsRegistry
>http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ApacheJ2EE/Configuration
>
>and put comments that have been made by others in there. 
>Ideally, I'd like people to review the first couple and 
>add any other advantages/disadvantages/wishlist items 
>inside there.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Alex.
>