BELL (bell)

This feature enables the configuration of Basic Extensions using Liberty Libraries (BELL). A BELL enables the server runtime to be extended using shared libraries.

NameTypeDefaultDescription

id

string

A unique configuration ID.

libraryRef

A reference to top level library element (string).

The library to use for the BELL.

service

string

The name of the service that the system will look up in the /META-INF/services folder. If not specified, the system discovers all services located in the META-INF/services folder.

spiVisibility

boolean

false

Indicates whether the system makes feature SPI packages visible to the library referenced by the BELL. Enable SPI visibility whenever the BELL provides services that use feature SPI.

library

The library to use for the BELL.

NameTypeDefaultDescription

apiTypeVisibility

string

spec,ibm-api,api,stable

The types of API packages that this class loader supports. This value is a comma-separated list of any combination of the following API packages: spec, ibm-api, api, stable, third-party.

description

string

Description of shared library for administrators

filesetRef

List of references to top level fileset elements (comma-separated string).

Id of referenced Fileset

name

string

Name of shared library for administrators

library > file

Id of referenced File

NameTypeDefaultDescription

id

string

A unique configuration ID.

name

Path to a file
Required

Fully qualified filename

library > fileset

Id of referenced Fileset

NameTypeDefaultDescription

caseSensitive

boolean

true

Boolean to indicate whether or not the search should be case sensitive (default: true).

dir

Path to a directory

${server.config.dir}

The base directory to search for files.

excludes

string

The comma or space separated list of file name patterns to exclude from the search results, by default no files are excluded.

id

string

A unique configuration ID.

includes

string

*

The comma or space separated list of file name patterns to include in the search results (default: *).

scanInterval

A period of time with millisecond precision

0

Scanning interval to check the fileset for changes as a long with a time unit suffix h-hour, m-minute, s-second, ms-millisecond (e.g. 2ms or 5s). Disabled (scanInterval=0) by default. Specify a positive integer followed by a unit of time, which can be hours (h), minutes (m), seconds (s), or milliseconds (ms). For example, specify 500 milliseconds as 500ms. You can include multiple values in a single entry. For example, 1s500ms is equivalent to 1.5 seconds.

library > folder

Id of referenced folder

NameTypeDefaultDescription

dir

Path to a directory
Required

Directory or folder to be included in the library classpath for locating resource files

id

string

A unique configuration ID.

properties

Name="Value" pairs the system will pass to a service implementation at creation and update. The service implementation class must declare a public constructor, or a public method named updateBell, with a single parameter of type java.util.Map<String, String>.