[jboss-as7-dev] Intended deployemnt behavior?

[Brian Stansberry]

On 7/11/11 10:22 AM, Jim Crossley wrote:
> Bob McWhirter<bmcwhirt at redhat.com>  writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> Dunno if it'd help, but generally supporting a deployments/myapp.link
>> deployment, where the myapp.link file is just a text file containing
>> only and exactly the path to an exploded application, might be useful.
>
> Other benefits include:
>
> 1) no complicated marker file extension state machine required.
>
> 2) it opens the door for us to deploy things that don't necessarily
> match "^.*\\.[SsWwJjEeRr][Aa][Rr]$", e.g. our torquebox .knob files.
>
> Yes, I know the expression is a "standard" (or is it? are .sar's
> standard?), but it seems arbitrarily restrictive to those of us desirous
> of the JBoss awesomeness without all the JEE goo.  :)
>

That pattern can certainly be made configurable; I'd accept a patch for 
that.

I don't see how the .link thing removes the need for having the scanner 
understand the .knob extension, unless .link is effectively a trojan 
that hides the actual content location from the management system.


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Brian Stansberry
Principal Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat