Overview

This document describes the OpenCDS Configuration for version 2.x and above.

What's new?

Dedicated schemas for describing configuration metadata.
- Migration tool to migrate configuration schema from the previous version (1.2.x, 1.1.x, etc.) to the new version.
REST interface for adding/updating and retrieving the configuration metadata
- including reloadability of File-based configuration.
Backwards compatibility with ClassPath- and File-based configuration.
- NOT compatible with previous schemas; migration is required.
New backend configuration scheme using BerkeleyDB (BDB-JE).
- This is the only method that is supported via REST.

Schemas

Backend

REST Service

PLEASE NOTE: OpenCDS Configuration REST Services should be used while no (DSS) requests are being processed by the system. Doing otherwise may result in a race condition on the configuration backend, yielding potentially unexpected results.