[jboss-as7-dev] AS8 - Should Domain Management Be A Subsystem

Before we get too far ahead I think it is time to revisit this question again. Early in AS7 development the configuration required for management of the servers was simple - for standalone mode and in a host controller process this was handled independently to expose the management interfaces. As the host controller has no support for subsystems we continued down the path of adding to the management specific configuration. In standalone mode we don't need to avoid subsystems as the process is a running application server but we avoid subsystems to be compatible with a host controller. Do we want to continue with this approach for AS8 where everything being used for domain management needs to be usable in a non-AS process - or do we want to re-visit if the host controller should be able to run subsystems? Maybe the host controller could even just be a standalone AS process running a minimal configuration. Regards, Darran Lofthouse.