Re: [jboss-as7-dev] Changed arguments…can we do better ? :P

> Someone just mentioned that Max posted this question regarding AS7 startup: > >> Going over the AS7.1 server and how startup arguments has changed we >> noticed besides the -logmodule not being needed the following two was >> added: >> >> -Djboss.modules.system.pkgs=org.jboss.byteman >> -Djava.awt.headless=true >> . . . >> Any reason why byte man gets added and not the others ? > Yes. If you don't add this at startup then the module loader will hide > all the Byteman classes from all JBoss classloaders. This means that you > cannot decide to install a Byteman agent after AS startup in order to > debug/trace behaviour in a broken App Server. It just won't work (TM). > That's going to give our support team (not to mention our developers who > need to use Byteman for testing) a major headache. Yes, I know - same problem for those wanting to use jprofiler, yourkit, eclemma, and others. > Of course, we could always advise all AS7 users to configure this > setting in their own startup and leave it undefined by default but in > practice that's just going to be a FAIL. David Lloyd and I discussed > this some months back (July 11?) and having checked that adding this to > the startup had *negligible* overhead it was added as a default. Yes, I just suggest we make this list include more than just byteman and take it *off* the commandline into a setting. > Also, I think the idea of adding this via a properties file sounds nice > at first but actually it is just splitting up the config by another > name. One file to rule them all . . . The problem is there are not one file to rule them all. There is one per OS and tools that need to launch cannot use the .bat/.sh files since no way to portably and reliably kill the process. /max http://about.me/maxandersen _______________________________________________ jboss-as7-dev mailing list jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev