Selective Parsing?

[Rod Widdowson]

> What I was suggesting was, when we create a context for a Service
> abstraction, we could create a context with some kind of bean defined as a
> signalling tool, and then create a child context for the actual "real"
> beans. Then the parsers would do getBean or whatever on the app context,
> which would delegate to the parent, and that's your side channel.

Cute.
 
> I'm probably ok with that, particularly if we end up in a place where it's
> only done for legacy configurations. But I'm not sure we'll end up there
> because of the overlap between metadata verification and the security
part.

I see what you mean.  I'll need to see what the code ends up like before I
can really comment - it's all rather abstract in my mind right now.

 
> One way out might be to provide metadata and security bits out of one
> service interface.

.. or inject the security interface into the metadata service?

R