Re: [jboss-dev] JBoss Bootstrap, Embedded & Reloaded

Bill Burke wrote: > > > David M. Lloyd wrote: >> Guys, modularization is one thing but it's critical that we think >> about the API that the end-user will actually end up using. If it's >> not easy to use, nobody will use it, period. That equals failure in >> my book. I for one would rather use an API like Emmanuel suggested >> than all the dozens of different metadata classes and the ugly MC >> deployer API. >> > > I think following these steps would do well in figuring out hwo you > want the API to look: > > * How hard is it to use within Eclipse? > * How hard is it to use within Intellij? > * How hard is it to use with a unit test for, EJB + JPA + JCA? > It needs to be easier than using Cargo. Right now I can use Cargo to start/deploy/test/stop. I do that every day from both Maven and Ant. I don't need to use any API at all. The problem is that Cargo is slow because it has to copy a new configuration. Embedded should be faster. If it's not faster and easier to configure than Cargo then you've lost. Note that this might just mean having JBoss Embedded as a Cargo-supported container.