[OPENEJB-1028] Better templating to reduce redundant openejb.xml config data

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 3.1.x
• Component/s: configuration
• Assignee: David Blevins
• Reporter: David Blevins
• Created: 25/May/09 19:20
• Updated: 19/Jul/12 19:58

Description

The idea is that instead of doing this as we currently do:

<Resource id="My DataSource" type="DataSource">
JdbcDriver org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
JdbcUrl jdbc:hsqldb:file:data/hsqldb/hsqldb
UserName sa
Password
JtaManaged true
</Resource>

<Resource id="My Unmanaged DataSource" type="DataSource">
JdbcDriver org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
JdbcUrl jdbc:hsqldb:file:data/hsqldb/hsqldb
UserName sa
Password
JtaManaged false
</Resource>

You can instead utilize the already existing 'provider' attribute to point to things in the openejb.xml file just as you can already use it to point to things declared in a service-jar.xml file.

<Resource id="My DataSource" type="DataSource">
JdbcDriver org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
JdbcUrl jdbc:hsqldb:file:data/hsqldb/hsqldb
UserName sa
Password
JtaManaged true
</Resource>

<Resource id="My Unmanaged DataSource" provider="My DataSource">
JtaManaged false
</Resource>