Values for ComponentType to pass to ManagementView

[bytor99999]

Is there an Enum or some other place to find the different possible values you can set for ComponentType, so when you call getComponentsForType(ComponentType type) it will return stuff? :)

Or is it possible to keep the ComponentType set to an empty String and therefore the ManagementView call to get components returns all Components?

Is this something that should be thought about in the design, or am I just wasting your time because I should have posted this in a different forum. :)

Thanks

Mark Spritzler

[starksm64]

I was thinking of a KnownComponentTypes that provides enums for the well known component types. I could support returning the current set of known component types from the ManagementView as well.

[bytor99999]

Yes. The thing I keep thinking,though, is that if there was an Enum, is that going to limit the ComponentTypes that the ProfileService supports?

Or should it remain wide open to allow unknown types that can be managed.

Anyway, I am just getting my feet wet with the ProfileService.

Thanks Scott

Mark

[starksm64]

The enum would not restrict the allowed types as that would continue to be whatever deployers decide to add. It would be a separate enum from the ComponentType interface that had a ComponentType accessor, for example:

public interface KnownComponentTypes
{
 public enum DataSourceTypes
 {
 XA("DataSource", "XA"), LocalTx("DataSource", "LocalTx"), NoTX("DataSource", "NoTX");

 private final String type;
 private final String subtype;
 private DataSourceTypes(String type, String subtype)
 {
 this.type = type;
 this.subtype = subtype;
 }

 public ComponentType getType()
 {
 return new ComponentType(type, subtype);
 }
 };
}

[bytor99999]

Very cool.

You also answered my next question regarding Datasource subtypes. :)

Mark