[xwiki-devs] [discussion] configuration files loading

Hi, devs. I would like to discuss about How we should load external configuration files (such as hibernate.cfg.xml, repository.xml and others) AFAIK, we agreed the following algorithm to load external config files: 1. filesystem 2. ServletContext 3. classpath. But we still lack some implementation for it. So we duplicate code in store, cache and others modules. How can it be implemented right? (Spring fwk for example have nice Resource classes: http://static.springframework.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/reference/resources.html and Resource classes injected simply by string path.) I see 2 ways: 1. Add InputStream getResourceAsStream(String) method to our Utils class. +: simple but I'm not sure it is right in V2 arch. 2. Implement Chained, FileSystem and ClassPath application contexts and provide one chained application context which tries to load resource from filesystem, servlet and classpath contexts in this order. -: I think it is overhead for now. I'm +1 for 1. now. Another question is How we should configure config file path. I think we should provide default path in component class (String somepath = "some/path") and we can override it in components.xml So no more "xwiki.store.hibernate.path" and others params in xwiki.cfg. Use components.xml instead. xwiki.cfg should contain more useful and global params. WDYT? -- Artem Melentyev