[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Updated: (AS7-374) Create a unified server-config resource that includes the actual instance operations

Create a unified server-config resource that includes the actual instance operations ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: AS7-374 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-374 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Domain Management Reporter: Heiko Braun is the 'server' node the element that contains server instances? Yes; that's where you access the actual running server. The operations to actually start/stop/restart the server and check their status are under "server-config" which I'm not happy about. Not intuitive. It's that way because of a kind of chicken-and-egg problem. Emanuel, WDYT about a more sophisticated ProxyController for the servers? Installed by the ServerAddHandler. It handles the lifecycle and status ops directly; proxies the rest. Where it gets complicated is things like read-resource, read-resource-description, read-attribute, all of which would require custom handling. It also make a server resource an odd duck, since it's resource description varies depending on whether the server is started. Yes, we could think of doing something like that - maybe we should just create a ManagedServer for all configured servers and make it the proxy. It should be aware of the lifecyle/state of the server anyway and also holds the associated managed connection. Yes, that sounds like the right way to implement it. Heiko/Ike/Emanuel/anyone -- any concerns about the "resource description varies" issue? What I mean is, for all other resources, read-resource-description will return fixed content. For host=x,server=y it will vary depending on whether the server is actually started. If not running, it will just provide the operation to start the server and a "status" attribute, which will tell you it's stopped. Once you start the server, then read-resource-description will provide that, plus ops to stop and restart the server, plus all the normal attributes and operations exposed by the root resource of a server.