[jboss-dev] Re: RAR / DataSource tasks

[Dimitris Andreadis]

Adrian wrote:
> They're both assigned to me, but...
> 
> On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 17:50 +0200, Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
>> In the absence of Weston, can Adrian help with
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4671
>>
> 
>>From the forum thread, it looks like this relates to some
> DeploymentTemplate stuff that I'm not familiar with?
>> Is there any work left for:
>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3415
>>
> 
> This has very little information on it.
> 
> I already ported the RARDeployer to the new deployers
> last year (it still uses MBeans).
> 
> Presumably it is about adding managed objects.
> Is that really required for beta3?

I suppose Scott can answer both. Ales might be able to help if we provide him with directions.

> NOTE: The JCA codebase is a mess in jboss-head.
> Weston admitted he hasn't been porting stuff
> from jboss-4.2 (I fixed some of it last month
> that was causing problems).
> But it won't be easy to reconcile 
> since there are additional features
> and a changed deployment model in jboss-head.

I think we need a short term solution (Adrian :) and a long term one. AFAIK, Shelly wants to 
work on JCA so maybe we can involve her with the codebase gradually.