[embjopr-dev] support for view/update of WAR/EAR files

Support has been adding in trunk for deploying new WARs and EARs (from the parent Resource type's summary page). The next step is adding the ability to view and update the backing file for an existing WAR or EAR (from the WAR/EAR resource's Content tab). There are a few questions that need to be answered before this can be implemented: 1) Do we want to provide an option to download the existing WAR or EAR file? 2) Do we want to provide the option to change a zipped deployment to an exploded deployment, and vice-verse? 3) Do we want to provide the option to change the deploy directory (e.g. from deploy/ to farm/)? 4) Do we want to provide the option to change the deployment filename? My initial thoughts: 1) not essential but could be a useful feature 2) on the fence here but leaning towards yes 3) on the fence here but leaning towards yes 4) I'm pretty sure we don't want this, since the filename is part of the underlying MBean's ObjectName (e.g. jboss.management.local:J2EEApplication=null,J2EEServer=Local,j2eeType=WebModule,name=jmx-console.war), which serves as the resource's key, and we generally try to avoid mutating resource keys. <http://localhost:8080/jmx-console/HtmlAdaptor?action=inspectMBean&nam... Please provide your thoughts along with any additional questions you can think of. Thanks, Ian