[jboss-dev] JBoss Bootstrap, Embedded & Reloaded

[Bill Burke]

Stan Silvert wrote:
> Bill Burke wrote:
>>
>>
>> David M. Lloyd wrote:
>>> Guys, modularization is one thing but it's critical that we think 
>>> about the API that the end-user will actually end up using.  If it's 
>>> not easy to use, nobody will use it, period.  That equals failure in 
>>> my book.  I for one would rather use an API like Emmanuel suggested 
>>> than all the dozens of different metadata classes and the ugly MC 
>>> deployer API.
>>>
>>
>> I think following these steps would do well in figuring out hwo you 
>> want the API to look:
>>
>> * How hard is it to use within Eclipse?
>> * How hard is it to use within Intellij?
>> * How hard is it to use with a unit test for, EJB + JPA + JCA?
>>
> It needs to be easier than using Cargo.  Right now I can use Cargo to 
> start/deploy/test/stop.  I do that every day from both Maven and Ant.  I 
> don't need to use any API at all.
> 
> The problem is that Cargo is slow because it has to copy a new 
> configuration.  Embedded should be faster.  If it's not faster and 
> easier to configure than Cargo then you've lost.  Note that this might 
> just mean having JBoss Embedded as a Cargo-supported container.
> 

Again, I want to be able to right click on a test directory and run all 
the tests in there without having any special IDE plugin.  Having an 
embeddable servlet container to do RESTEasy unit testing has been a huge 
productivity boost for me.  The days of manually starting some process 
(and waiting) are over for me.  I refuse to use any tech that doesn't 
allow me to be this productive.


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Bill Burke
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