Clarifications on RC2 mechanism for aspects to load custom X

[rkadayam]

I read the release notes for RC2 and yet to start using it but have a few questions


1. Is the dependency on XmlLoadable completely removed in Aspects ? And if so does it also mean there is no more dependency with jboss-common.jar ? (That would be hallelujah when it comes to using with other app servers :-) )

2. So, is the ability to configure custom attributes via XML definitions on Aspects then now supported via the setElement() method provided in AspectDefinition ? The source code seems to indicate that but would just like to verify it for sure.



Thanks,
Rajiv Kadayam

[bill.burke]

The jboss-common.jar dependency still exists. Why would it matter with other app servers? Its only using a few org.jboss classes.

Read this and let me know if it answers your config questions:

http://docs.jboss.org/aop/aspect-framework/reference/en/html/xml.html#xml-aspect3

[rkadayam]

For one the packaging becomes lighter. It may not be an issue but have this fear that there might be some conflicts with maybe like xml parsers, etc.

The javabean style attribute setting sort of takes away the generic "property based" configuration that was possible in the previous release. Wonder if I could try to exhibit the same behavior in a roundabout.

Basically I could at run-time construct a bunch of xml based attribute specification and pass it on to the AspectDefinition as an Element and whenever XmlLoadable was called I could cleanly parse and pick out all these name based attributes. These attributes I'd store in a Map and simply retrieve it by name. This is un-structured but gives the flexibility I need for my requirements.

I noticed that even a "Document" could be set as a javabean attribute in RC2. Could you illustrate with an example, I could maybe do the same to achieve what I managed in RC1

Thanks
Rajiv

[bill.burke]

See section 4.4.4. You can write your own factory by implementing AspectFactory which accepts an Element.

[rkadayam]

That helps, thanks a lot.