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reply from <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/bstansberry%40jboss.com">Brian Stansberry</a> in <i>Management Development</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/546289#546289">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>There's a product requirement:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><blockquote class="jive-quote">Instances will still be configurable even if they are not currently running. Changes<br/>will become active when the instance is next started.</blockquote><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>To me the spirit of that is its not required to have running services to properly configure things. And to me part of properly configuring things is seeing what the current values are, so I can decide whether those values are appropriate. That includes values that are defaulted. If I have to have a running JBossWeb to know that when I start a server it's going to listen for HTTP requests on port 8080, we're doing something wrong.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>My phrasing about not having a fixed API was poorly worded. What I meant was, if for example a configuration API had a getHttpPort() method but whether it would return a meaningful result depends on whether they have services running, that's not really a configuration API. It's a monitoring API. A monitoring API is a reasonable part of the domain management API, but it's a distinct thing from a configuration API.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>We were chatting a bit about the problem of multiple versions of AS running in the same domain, which bears on this whole area. I was interrupted and had to bail; let me get my brain back into the train of thought...</p></div>
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