Re: [Embedlets-dev] [Off Topic] re: ID'ing peripherals

[Holger B. <ho...@bi...>]

> If a company has thousands of embedded processors deployed, it's 
> unlikely
> that they will use DNS names for them, since maintaining that many DNS
> entries is a big task.  More likely they will just allocate IP 
> addresses.
>
> That being said, the idea has merit.  What I'm planning to put in the 
> spec is
> that the user will be able to assign names to all the components and 
> the
> container (as strings) in the XML Config files, and in the case of the
> container itself, allow this to be overriden in the deployment process 
> (so
> that multiple identical containers can had unique names).  But I was 
> not
> planning on specifying what the names should look like....would rather 
> just
> allow any arbitrary string, and let the client use whatever naming 
> standard
> makes sense for them (since they may already have corporate standards 
> for
> this).

This reminds me on the JNDI federated namespace, don't it?

> I would let the client provide the auto-gen id code as part of the 
> deployment
> process.

An interceptor architecture might be helpfull on this ...

bax