Re: [jboss-as7-dev] Intended deployemnt behavior?
On 7/11/11 10:22 AM, Jim Crossley wrote:
Bob McWhirter<bmcwhirt(a)redhat.com> writes:
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> Dunno if it'd help, but generally supporting a deployments/myapp.link
> deployment, where the myapp.link file is just a text file containing
> only and exactly the path to an exploded application, might be useful.
Other benefits include:
1) no complicated marker file extension state machine required.
2) it opens the door for us to deploy things that don't necessarily
match "^.*\\.[SsWwJjEeRr][Aa][Rr]$", e.g. our torquebox .knob files.
Yes, I know the expression is a "standard" (or is it? are .sar's
standard?), but it seems arbitrarily restrictive to those of us desirous
of the JBoss awesomeness without all the JEE goo. :)
That pattern can certainly be made configurable; I'd accept a patch for
that.
I don't see how the .link thing removes the need for having the scanner
understand the .knob extension, unless .link is effectively a trojan
that hides the actual content location from the management system.
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Brian Stansberry
Principal Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat