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- Configure method to generate Application Specification
- A set of properties can be submitted on application deployment and available in the
Application.configuremethod- Application can configure itself based on those properties
- A set of properties can be submitted on application deployment and available in the
- Application can be extended by cloning. Conceptually it is like prototypal inheritance. There is no class (template), only instance (Application).
- On cloning, a set of properties can be submitted through the clone (REST) call
- The
Application.configure()method will be called again to generate a new Application Specification for the newly cloned app- The set of properties submitted through the clone call will be merged with the source app properties
- There can be a known set of properties that the platform will interpret automatically (same applies to the original app deployment)
- Adding of schedulers, plugins usage, etc.
- No jar is being copied, only new entries in meta data table are created
Program
- A Program can declares what configuration properties it needs
- Much like what plugin does
- Properties will be populated and available in both configure time and run time.
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