[xwiki-dev] Re: [xwiki-commits] [Issue] Commented: (XWIKI-942) Customize default cache duration

[Sergiu Dumitriu]

On 3/13/07, Pablo Oliveira <pablo.oliveira at enst.fr> wrote:
>
> On Mar 13, Vincent Massol wrote :
> > We'll have to take a decision here in the future:
> > 1) either we provide a configuration per component
> > 2) or we provide a global configuration
> >
> > I prefer 1) because:
> > - a component is encapsulated completely in a JAR
> > - a component shouldn't  see by default configuration from other
> > components. It's these other components who should offer APIs to
> > return configuration data if required
>
> I also like 1 better.
>
> Yet I think from a user point of view, it seems more natural to edit a
> single xwiki.cfg file than to edit a conf file inside some component's
> JAR meta data. So I would still allow some global way of overriding
> components configuration from a single configuration source.
>
> Pablo



I also think that we need both.

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