Specifying Container Name and Settings

Added by Gilad David Maayan, last edited by Aleia Hutcherson on May 25, 2008  (view change)
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Summary: How to specify the container name when starting a space; overwriting default container configuration in runtime.

"." Container Notation

The Space URL uses the following notation to start a space: "/./<Space Name>"
For example: "/./mySpace"

When using the space URL the SpaceFinder/CacheFinder will instantiate (create) a space instance named "mySpace" using the default schema configuration. The default schema is set to transient space configuration and it is equivalent to using the following URL:

"java://localhost:10098/mySpace_container/mySpace?schema=default".
You can use"." as the container name in the space URL. A value of "." as the container name will be translated to <space name>_container name. In the above example the container name is explicitly defined as mySpace_container.

When a URL is provided without the protocol (java) and host name (localhost), the SpaceFinder/CacheFinder treats "/./mySpace" as

java://localhost:10098/mySpace_container/mySpace?schema=default.

Overwriting Existing Configuration Files

You may overwrite the existing default schema configuration files by the creation of a <container-name>-config.xml and <space-name>.xml file. If these files exist they will overwrite the default configuration defined by the schema files. Such overriding will should be used for backward compatibility. In other cases, for backward compatibility, if you have a space configuration file, then the schema will be overridden.

Please do not mix usage of "old" space configuration files with space schema files.

There is no need to have the space configuration files if you have defined the schema name as part of the SpaceFinder/CacheFinder, or if you use Java:// protocol with the ?create option (this uses the default-space-schema.xml file).

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