Bernd Schuller wrote:
what is the opinion on using JSDL DataStaging elements that contain wildcards? Or even something more powerful such as filesets with includes and excludes, as in Apache Ant?
I've been tending to think in terms of "ship this whole directory tree", which doesn't need (explicit) wildcards, and which permits all sorts of interesting behind-the-scenes optimizations. One problem with wildcards is that they can sometimes lead to unexpected results; I can remember someone creating a file called '-f' in a globally-writeable directory once and getting some very strange complaints from the sysadmins. :-) This is why JSDL as written in the spec does not have any wildcards within it. (If it did, they'd *not* be shell-like, but rather XML-like.) Donal.