Re: [jboss-as7-dev] Configuration conundrum with Express

>>> I hope its done with something that doesn't requires N implementations - but something like the suggested feature of being able to deploy management changes. >> >> AS7 doesn't allow this generally, right? So why would it be different on express? > > I don't want Express to be different, I want both AS7 locally, on remote hosts and on express to be easy to configure/setup without relying on a running server or that your tool has access to do the right management calls at the right times. > > i.e. before we could copy a .war and a -ds.xml and it would work/deploy from any tech. > > Now we need to have forge, cli, jboss tools, netbeans, eclipse, intellij, my eclipse etc. be aware of AS7 management model and not only be able to tell the server to set something up, but also be able to handle the possible error conditions (i.e. datasource is already there, operation not permitted etc.) to do an outofbox deployment without too much fuzz. We are going to add support for -ds.xml and )probably jms destination deployments if we can find the time), but don't expect everything that is manageable to become a deployment. That will just never happen.