[Figleaf-developer] Application configuration

[<sam...@ma...>]

As I see it, at this stage of the game we need to configure the following things:

1. Which persistence mechanism to use
2. Which UI mechanism to use
3. Which Object manager to use
4. Which classes to use

How about an ApplicationConfiguration interface which defines the folowing methods:

getPersistenceMechanism()
getUIMechanism()
getObjectManager()
getRegisteredClasses()

The default ApplicationConfiguration implementation will use Spring - it will be
up to the bootstrapper class (or whatever) to invoke the correct configuration.
Even if we do use Spring, it would be nice to keep any configuration files as
simple as possible - the AppicationContext files can get a little verbose, so we
may want to roll our own configuration file. I can code up an implementation
that uses Spring's configuration file behind the scenes if you want - it will
just act as an abstracted layer for the code you already have. I'll probably
also code an implementation which allows the user to code the configuration
directly.

sam
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