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From: Alex Karasulu <akarasulu@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Reducing the complexity/verbosity of default server.xml (and
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Stefan Zoerner wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> There is some criticism about configuration complexity of ApacheDS, 
> especially from people who argue after a first glance at it. The 
> verbosity is mostly driven by the Spring Framework.
> 
> Here are three ideas I had:
> 
> ---
> 1) Simplify default server.xml by using another property setting style
> 
> Currently, the server.xml seems to favor this style (example):
> ...
> <bean id="systemPartitionConfiguration" class="...">
>     <property name="name"><value>system</value></property>
>     <property name="cacheSize"><value>100</value></property>
>     <property name="suffix"><value>ou=system</value></property>
> ...
> 
> Is there any reason why not to use this style:
> ...
> <bean id="systemPartitionConfiguration" class="...">
>     <property name="name" value="system" />
>     <property name="cacheSize" value="100" />
>     <property name="suffix" value="ou=system" />
> ...

Don't know if it will work with spring.  Try it in a working ADS 
installtion and run your experiment to see.

If it works I like this reduction in noise.

> (quite easy to achieve. I volunteer, if nobody contradicts that this is 
> a (rather small) imrovement)
> ---
> 
> 2) Reduce length of partition configuration
> 
> Currently, partition configuration are very long, mostly because of the 
> many many indices for internal attributes:

Yeah you don't need to do an index for it.  It can be defaulted.

> ...
>         <bean 
> class="org.apache.directory.server.core.partition.impl.btree.MutableIndexConfiguration"> 
> 
>           <property 
> name="attributeId"><value>1.3.6.1.4.1.18060.0.4.1.2.1</value></property>
>           <property name="cacheSize"><value>100</value></property>
>         </bean>
> (many others follow, in each partition the same
> ...
> 
> If it is highly recommend to use these indices, how about having a 
> special IndexConfiguration as a default, which only has to be extended 
> in order to adjust it to your needs?

Good idea I think we may already have this but I must confirm it.

> ---
> 
> 3. Define our own tags for configuration with the help XML Schema-based 
> configuration introduced in Spring 2.0. This is more a long term option. 
> But I think the idea is promising.
> 
> What do you think?


Hmmm I don't even know what this is.  I don't have any ideas on Spring 
2.0.  But from what I can gather from your question above it does sound 
like a nice solution to use a custom ads schema.

Regards,
Alex

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