[jboss-as7-dev] Looking for naming help

[Pete Muir]

On 5 Jun 2011, at 01:13, James Perkins wrote:

> Hello All,
> While working on the Maven deployment plugin we've been contemplating what the goals should be named. Currently we have 4 goals; deploy, deploy-or-redeploy, redeploy and undeploy.
> 
> We kind of feel deploy-or-redeploy will be the default most people would use. It seems a little verbose for the default. I've thought about making deploy act as the deploy-or-redeploy,

I'm for making deploy-or-redeploy the "default" - i.e. the deploy goal. 

> but I'm a bit concerned that users will assume it will fail if the deployment already exists.

Something I mean to ask was why users would assume this? Because this is the way deploy works in the AS7 deployment API?

> 
> So my question to the lot of you is how would you interpret these goals and can you think of some better names? Mainly a replacement for deploy-or-redeploy, but any other suggestions are welcome.
> 
> Currently as a replacement for deploy-or-redeploy we have always-deploy and force-deploy.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -- 
> James R. Perkins
> JBoss by Red Hat
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