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Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 06:08:53 -0500
From: Richard Monson-Haefel <Richard@Monson-Haefel.com>
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Subject: Re: JNDI Impl
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I think its proper to discuss it on this list under some specific thread so that
everyone can contribute, discuss, etc.

"Kington, Max" wrote:

> Richard,
>
> Where would this live and would you take the discussion of it's development
> elswhere? That's not a request, that's a question, I've got some points
> regarding this pivitol point of J2EE infrastructure with regards to
> security.
>
> I just wouldn't want to miss the discussion,
>
> Max
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Monson-Haefel [mailto:Richard@Monson-Haefel.com]
> Sent: 08 August 2003 11:21
> To: geronimo-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: JNDI Impl
>
> The JNDI implementation I wrote for OpenEJB was really simple. It used a
> binary tree to locate sub contexts and cached lookups for speed. It wasn't a
> full fledged JNDI implementation in that you could not dynamically bind or
> unbind objects. The JNDI Environment Naming Context is supposed to be
> immutable after server start up. That's why its possible to create a very
> lightweight implementation that is easy to maintain and very fast.
>
> If you created a stand alone JNDI ENC it wouldn't be very useful outside of
> the J2EE context.  It may be better in the long run to have a complete JNDI
> implementation which is based on something in the commons. For the short
> term, however, we can use something more akin to what I created for OpenEJB
> -- its doesn't take long to create and is flexible enough to play nice with
> other systems.
>
> James Strachan wrote:
>
> > Just a thought - Richard do you think the JNDI is gonna need much hooks
> > to Geronimo or will it be just a 100% vanilla JNDI.
> >
> > Am wondering if (say) Henri moved the JNDI to Jakarta Commons for us so
> > its easy to reuse (thanks Henri!), we could then add any extra stuff we
> > need inside Geronimo for now and if it turns out that some reusable
> > code can be pushed back into Commons we can do that too.
> >
> > On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 08:04  am, Henri Yandell wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Additional:
> > >
> > > Am also a Commons committer, so can handle things like setting the
> > > project
> > > up and website etc.
> > >
> > > I believe the person to speak to about the Tomcat JNDI is Costin
> > > Manolache. No idea if he's hooked into the Geronimo feed yet.
> > >
> > > Hen
> > >
> > > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Henri Yandell wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> I'm happy to help with the JNDI if required. Moving Tomcat's JNDI
> > >> impl to
> > >> Commons has been a 'how the hell do I approach that' task on my list
> > >> for a
> > >> while.
> > >>
> > >> I've also got a peculiar JNDI implementation
> > >> [http://www.osjava.org/simple-jndi] so might have some odd ideas to
> > >> throw
> > >> in.
> > >>
> > >> Hen
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Richard Monson-Haefel wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I created a JNDI implementation for the Environment Naming Context in
> > >>> OpenEJB that was simple and fast.  I think David Blevin's may have
> > >>> modified it so that it plays nice with servlets in Tomcat or with
> > >>> Tomcat's JNDI implementation. At any rate, I would be happy to
> > >>> recreate
> > >>> a similar implementation for Geronimo.  Should I plan on doing this?
> > >>> Anyone object?
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>> Richard Monson-Haefel
> > >>> Author of J2EE Web Services (Addison-Wesley 2003)
> > >>> Author of Enterprise JavaBeans, 3rd Edition  (O'Reilly 2001)
> > >>> Co-Author of Java Message Service (O'Reilly 2000)
> > >>> http://www.Monson-Haefel.com
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> >
> > James
> > -------
> > http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/
>
> --
> Richard Monson-Haefel
> Author of J2EE Web Services (Addison-Wesley 2003)
> Author of Enterprise JavaBeans, 3rd Edition  (O'Reilly 2001)
> Co-Author of Java Message Service (O'Reilly 2000)
> http://www.Monson-Haefel.com

--
Richard Monson-Haefel
Author of J2EE Web Services (Addison-Wesley 2003)
Author of Enterprise JavaBeans, 3rd Edition  (O'Reilly 2001)
Co-Author of Java Message Service (O'Reilly 2000)
http://www.Monson-Haefel.com