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new comment by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/andy.miller">Andrig Miller</a> <a href="http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-16657#comment-5790">View all comments on this document</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><blockquote class="jive-quote"><p>Rich Raposa wrote:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p>
                        <p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Andrig - good stuff! Thanks for putting this together. I am kind of shocked at how different AS 7 is from previous versions of JBoss - but hopefully the changes are all for the better.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Since you brought it up, what is the other technique for defining a datasource?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Thanks!</p><p>Rich</p></div>
                    </blockquote><p>Thanks for the compliment Rich.  Yes, AS 7 is a radical departure from previous versions, and yes I believe it will be a huge leap forward.  To answer your question, I have been told that you can deploy your data source, using the driver jar in the deployments directory, but I haven't even tried it yet, so I'm not sure how that works.  If I get a chance, I might try that and add to the document.  In future beta's there will be an administration console.  Through that we should also be able to create and deploy data sources, and everything else that can be configured.  It sits on top of a new management API, that also has a CLI interface.  Overall, when the console and management API get completed you will be able to do all the "manual" configuration stuff through a very nice UI, or scripted via the CLI, and our documentation will become more about using those mechanisms than what I documented here.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Exciting stuff is coming!</p></div>
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