[wildfly-dev] Trimming console size

Stan Silvert ssilvert at redhat.com
Mon Feb 24 18:48:43 EST 2014


On 2/24/2014 4:15 PM, Brian Stansberry wrote:
> On 2/24/14, 2:55 PM, John Doyle wrote:
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>>      I'm hoping that it won't be long before the web console is a
>>      separate download that merely connects to WildFly/EAP.  At that
>>      point we would not ship web console with the server and this won't
>>      really matter any more.
>>
>> That might be fine for WildFly, but additional downloads is an
>> anti-requirement for EAP.
> IMO it would be an anti-requirement for the main distribution of WF as
> well -- the one where you download a zip and unzip it to get a full EE
> appserver. But it could be common in other ways we distribute.
The web console team has several good reasons for wanting to have a 
separate download.  I'll let them articulate it.

But I guess I don't understand your response since web console is not 
required in order to have a full EE appserver.
>
>>
>>
>>      I assume that if we do trim the console, it will be for WildFly
>>      only?  That's probably a good thing but we would need to explain why
>>      the EAP download is so much larger.
>>
>>      Also note that localization is not just for logging messages and
>>      exceptions.  Some DMR operations are localized too and presumably
>>      the result does show up in the web console UI.
>>
>>      Stan
>>
>>      On 2/24/2014 8:59 AM, Tomaž Cerar wrote:
>>
>>          Hey guys,
>>
>>          I was just discussing with Harald could get distro size down by
>>          25+MB if we would trim our console a bit.
>>
>>          Currently we compile console with 40 permutations, six browsers
>>          (ie6,ie8,ie9,gecko1_8,safari) and eight languages
>>          (en,de,es,fr,pt_BR,zh_Hans,ja,ko).
>>
>>          I think we could drop support for ie6 and get rid of extra
>>          localization with support only EN.
>>          IE6 market share is so low this days that it really does not
>>          make sense to support it in upstream anymore.
>>          Also we don't ship localization of logging messages/exceptions
>>          in WildFy anyway, so why have just one part localized.
>>
>>          This way we would get down to 4 permutations and our console
>>          distro would be 6.8Mb instead of current 32,3Mb
>>
>>          Also if people want extra localization, they could always just
>>          download full console release and replace that with jar we ship.
>>
>>          So what do you guys think?
>>
>>
>>          --
>>          tomaz
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