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Re: How to model the (optional) OSGi webconsole in AS7
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created by <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/572839#572839">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Good point.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>There's an easy answer to that, which is that an installer is part of community AS and not part of the product. That's not very satisfying though. And I know Rich Sharples is interested in an installer-like capability, although in a  quick scan I didn't  that in any formal requirements doc. In the June discussions we had with Rich where we brainstormed a bit in that we didn't think about the QE implications though.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Another question is what does an installer really mean in terms of added QE and support burden.  It's basically a tool for configuring the AS. So is the shell and a text editor; i.e. users have always been able to alter the AS "profile" and make it run a configuration that's not part of our formal test plan. So an installer doesn't add anything new there. What does seem new:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>1) If we make it completely trivial to run a particular profile (e.g. we ship a domain-messaging.xml with a nothing-but-messaging profile, or include in an installer a single checkbox to create such a canned profile) then users could expect that we've quite thoroughly QE'd that particular profile.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>2) Users might expect that the installer would only allow valid, bootable combinations; i.e. if subsystem X requires subsystem Y and socket-binding A, then a profile can't be created that doesn't include X, Y and A. Confirming the installer enforces that would be a QE burden.</p></div>
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