Re: [jboss-dev] Splitting system and user deployments
I think we already have the
BootstrapProfileFactory/SerializableDeploymentRepositoryFactory [1]
which we can leverage to take a step towards accomplishing this.
As a first step, we could let the "deploy" folder be meant only for
JBoss/server specific deployments. We could add a new empty "user-apps"
(or any better named folder) at the same level as "deploy" and then ship
the server which scans this "user-apps" folder (through an appropriate
configuration in the
BootstrapProfileFactory/SerializableDeploymentRepositoryFactory). We
then start documenting/letting users know that the "deploy" folder is
deprecated and the support for user applications in that folder will be
removed soon.
Some users will continue deploying the application in the system
"deploy" folder, but they won't/shouldn't be complaining, if in later
releases, we decide to rename the system deploy folder or even do
something more drastic.
[1] http://www.jboss.org/community/docs/DOC-13241
regards,
-Jaikiran
||Jason T. Greene wrote:
Hi Everyone,
One topic that seems to come up often, but yet we never get around to
addressing, is adding a user specific deploy directory that is empty
by default [1].
If we go this route, what should we call such directories?
I added a few
Pros = + Cons = -
Option A
--------
System = deploy
User = apps
+ Users that expect system configuration files in deploy (like tomcat)
won't be caught off-guard
- Users might not notice the apps directory and put things in deploy
anyway
Option B
--------
System = system
User = apps
+ Looks nice
- New locations may be hard to find
Option C
--------
System = system
User = deploy
+ Users can still put apps in deploy, as they expect, and they no
longer see system deployments
- Users will have to find the new config location
Option D
--------
System = deploy/system
User = deploy/apps
+ Looks the nicest
+ Not too hard to find the new location
- Users will put things in deploy and it won't work!
Option E
--------
System = deploy-system
Apps = deploy-apps
+ Putting files in the deploy dir is no longer a problem since it
doesn't exist
+ Not too hard to find the new location
- Deploy no longer exists
- Kind of ugly
[1] https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-5954