[jboss-rpm] How to run EAP / AS 7 - EDG - RHEV-M / ovirt - SOA-P side-by-side on a rpm based platform?

[Itamar Heim]

On 02/28/2012 04:13 PM, Carlo de Wolf wrote:
> On 02/18/2012 06:03 AM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>> I don't see how we'd have bandwidth to do this differently for oVirt on
>> AS and rhev-m on eap. it's quite of an effort doing this once.
>> it is also a deployment choice. for the point of argument, rhev may
>> choose to use whichever version of jboss they want, it would still be
>> the jboss rpm's, as-is, right?
>> so why does it matter if they are part of software collections or not?
>> the way i see it, software collections only allow to have multiple
>> (mostly major) versions of same product (someone has to maintain all
>> these version streams).
>>
>> I think more interesting is to solve allowing to easily create extend
>> the jbossas service for pre/post steps of other products, and allow to
>> launch multiple instances of it by creating a small wrapper service
>> script re-using it (i.e., even if we decide we want ovirt to run jboss
>> as ovirt-engine service, instead of jbossas service - I don't want to
>> re-write and maintain the jbossas service as the ovirt service.
>> I want the ovirt service to use the jbossas service implementation to do
>> so with minimal code (make the script a library, or just re-useable and
>> allow it to get a parameter of service name when i start it, etc.)
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>
> The parameter you seek for multiple launches off 1 installation is
> jboss.server.base.dir.
>
> See also https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-1752
>
> You can even have the main installation as one user and the ovirt
> additional server base as another user.

but how would ovirt service re-use the jboss-as linux service and it's 
logic without duplicating it?