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[higgins-dev] [IdAS] context provider registration
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Please comment on the following method for statically registering
Context Providers with the IdAS Endpoint:
(1) A simple properties file is in <java-home>/lib/idas/idas.properties.
(2) The file contains properties (a la the Security properties file)
that specifies the types and ordering of providers, e.g.:
idas.provider.1 = com.ibm.idas.WayCoolProvider
idas.provider.2 = org.eclipse.higgins.idas.DefaultProvider
(3) Each provider would be instantiated when the Endpoint is
instantiated. It would be up to each provider to configure itself
(i.e., find where contexts are stored, read in the contexts, etc.)
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This method is similar to the Crypto Provider mechanism. I've seen
discussions on the web about Preferencs vs. Properties, and other
XML-based configuration approaches. Does anyone have a strong opinion
about doing something different than a simple properties file? (If this
is a reasonable approach, should we also provide a system property that
indicates which properties file to use?)
...Greg
