Dubbo: How to disable registry center completely?

[JerryChin]

I'm taking Dubbo as a pure RPC framework, so registry center is not appropriate in my case, but the ServiceConfig keeps complaining about missing registry.

Anyone could help?

[lexburner]

Do you want to use the direct IP to connect？

[JerryChin]

@lexburner

I've used explicit-target pattern as instructed by http://dubbo.apache.org/zh-cn/docs/user/demos/explicit-target.html

So it's really unnecessary to specify registry center in my ServiceConfig, but if I drop the serviceConfig.setRegistry(registryConfig); line, Dubbo will complain about the missing registry.

java.lang.IllegalStateException: No registry config found or it's not a valid config! The registry config is: <dubbo:registry valid="false" zookeeperProtocol="false" prefix="dubbo.registry" />
    at org.apache.dubbo.config.AbstractInterfaceConfig.checkRegistry(AbstractInterfaceConfig.java:162)
    at org.apache.dubbo.config.ServiceConfig.checkAndUpdateSubConfigs(ServiceConfig.java:270)
    at org.apache.dubbo.config.ServiceConfig.export(ServiceConfig.java:328)
    at com.xxx.xxx.rpcproxy.ProxyServiceProvider.start(ProxyServiceProvider.java:1063)
    at test.DubboTest.init(DubboTest.java:44)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)

        .......

[chickenlj]

Registry should not be a must-have config.

<dubbo:registry address="N/A"/>