Thanks Anatole. You were the one pushing the JSR so I wanted to be sure about the purpose of this proposal. Sound very interesting to me.
Looking forward to help if needed. Jean-Louis 2014-11-03 18:18 GMT+01:00 Tresch, Anatole <anatole.tre...@credit-suisse.com >: > Hi Jean-Louis > > unfortunately I was a bit deferred in receiving this mail thread here. So > sorry for the delay ;) > > > I do think it's an interested and important topic. > > > > Was wondering what's Anatole position as the Configuration JSR as been > > deferred from Java EE 8. > This JSR was targeting mainly EE 8 and mostly deployment aspects. I think, > with enough momentum, > we could try to discuss of add some kind of SPIs to EE 8 through the > umbrella JSR. > On the other side, when we get a restful container management API, we > could also > use this to plugin with any kind of configuration solution. Of course, my > hope is > that we will be able to have a configuration solution in place that is > mature and flexible > enough to effectively support these EE scenarios. > Application configuration basically is partially covered by Deltaspike as > of now, but I think > more features would be useful. As of now there is no good place to do a > standardization > for app config. I will try to revitalize the configuration stream in CDI, > so we could at > least end up in some kind of EE8 specification appendix. As of now this > seems to be the > maximum we can do on a standardization level. On the other side I think, > Apache is a > great chance to further evolve the concepts, so we will have a good > chance, that we > can standardize them at a later point. > > > Even if Mark and Gerhard are also part of DeltaSpike, that'd be great to > > avoid having many different configuration projects in Apache and then > > splitting forces. > > Probably also a good opportunity to move commons-configuration from > > proper/dormant. > > > > Jean-Louis > > Fair enough. I am looking forward for any kind of collaboration here > > -Anatole > > Anatole Tresch > Platform Strategy & Strategic Projects, KGVX 42 > +41 44 334 03 89 (*414 0389) > > -- Jean-Louis
