JBJCA-201 - Standalone configuration

[jeff.zhang]

We will use this thread to discuss standalone configuration.

[jesper.pedersen]

Currently we are using

org.jboss.jca.deployers.common.validator.ValidateObject

as the holder class for the object that needs to be validated.

Probably a better option would be to create a

org.jboss.jca.deployers.common.validator.ValidateClass

object, since we shouldn't require an instance of the object that needs to be checked.The class looks like ValidateObject, but have

Class<?> target

instead of

Object target

The ValidateObject class should then be removed.

This is especially useful for the standalone configuration as we don't have to create the object instances, but just pass the class definition.

The Main class for the standalone configuration should take a single argument -- path to the .RAR archive -- then convert that into an java.net.URL and pass that to the

org.jboss.jca.deployers.common.validator.Validator

class.

This means that the validator will have to use a lot of the same constructs as the deployer chain. The common functionality should be extracted into classes living in .deployers.common. This change will of course require changes to the current deployer chain.

[jeff.zhang]

I have created jira https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBJCA-261 for track this implantation