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AS 7 Deployment APIs
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reply from <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/bstansberry%40jboss.com">Brian Stansberry</a> in <i>JBoss AS7 Development</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/559809#559809">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>So, people can understand it, I'll document my thinking a bit on why it was add(deployment).andDeploy(). (Cutting to the chase it can probably change.)</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><ol><li>See my post above on 3 different parts of identifying a deployment -- common name, unique internal name, unique external name. That 3rd part unique external name is new from yesterday and is helpful. Without it the user needed a separate add operation so we could hash the deployment and come up with a unique name that's used in the other API methods. If instead we make the user responsible for providing a unique external name, that may simplify things.</li><li>In the domain case, we have a domain level <deployments/> element that lists all available deployments and then at the server-group level a mapping of deployments to server groups. And, within the server-group or on standalone server a deployment can have a start="false" flag. Those two facts imply a separate add operation that only makes content available but doesn't actually trigger deploy.</li><li>There are a lot of overloaded variants of "add". And I expect there will be more; see Jesper's suggestions on this thread, similar things that will probably come from Shrinkwrap. Adding all those overloaded variants to "deploy" and "replace" leads to an very busy API.</li></ol><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>But, now I'm less concerned about 3). If the "unique external name" is the id for a deployment, all the methods that take DeploymentUnitKey can go and we're left with the String variants. And if the variants that take "String repository" as a param can go, that again wipes out a lot of overloading. So convenience methods for deploy and replace make sense.</p></div>
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